Happiness happens, but joy abides. If happiness is the weather, then joy is the climate. An easy way to remember the difference is that climate is what you expect and the weather is what you get, and likewise optimism and joy are what we expect and life is what...
The other day I was at a regular meeting we have for Uniting Church ministers to reflect on aspects of ethical practice. It varies between being a boring bureaucratic requirement and valuable discipline. As part of the morning activities we pair up with someone and...
My four-year-old grandson never learnt to walk. That was just a stage on the way to learning to run because he runs everywhere. Except when he is riding his bike! He actually taught himself to ride in the aisles of Kmart – without trainer wheels! It’s a recent...
Ever since they did away with that coiled cord that kept the phone never far from its base, households around the country regularly echoed to the sound of the angry cry, “Has anyone seen the phone?” It’s got worse over the years as mobile phones have become mobile...
I hit a kangaroo. I truly did not see the kangaroo until it collided with the car. It was travelling at full speed and in a single jump it was plumb in front of the car. It’s one of those incidents that leaves you asking, “What if I’d been 10 seconds later, or...
