Choose life.

Some people have the ability to make good come out of evil. It has been 20 years since the Thredbo landslide disaster, the event that changed Stuart Diver’s life.  Recently Channel 9’s ‘60 Minutes’ featured a segment on the sole Thredbo survivor, who shared his...

The bits of ourselves that reside in other people’s minds.

In our everyday life remembering is the norm. We expect to be able to remember things, faces, names, and events. We make heroes of people with exceptional memory. We get worried when we have a “senior’s moment” and forget things we know that we really know, but for...

Wrong train but a good destination

I was doing the basics of my preparation for Sunday’s church services, between pruning the vineyard, getting ready for a meeting in Seymour, another meeting back at the vineyard, organising a fill-in player for our pool team, and the usual emails, phone calls, etc....

The Sower

I can’t believe that there are not more hymns that directly relate to the parable of the sower (Matthew 13:1-9, Mark 4:1-20, Luke 6:4-15). Such a great multi-layered story. So with a little trepidation, here is my take on a hymn, set to one of my favourite tunes...

What if your talent is a burden?

As a very average, but competitive spirited,athlete, footballer and tennis player in my youth, I used to envy those natural sportspeople who were taller, faster and more talented. What l had was passion, but I lacked talent. I’d have given a lot to be more like them....