Politics - my spin. I feel whilst you may not agree with me on my political opinions and most probably have more knowledge, facts and understanding we can find common ground I hope in this - Australian Politics (and the world for that matter) has become a joke. No more meaningful than a fight at preschool, pointless discourse paid in full by me and you - taxes... More about them and less about the people! Question time, elections, speeches and policies seem to be all about making the other party look stupid, glorifying themselves or gaining power. I don't care for Labor or Liberals, Greens or Nationals but I damn well care about my country and its people. Neither party is anything more than a school yard brawl, self serving and seeking attention from all. Playing games with our money and country like it was a basketball.
Last week I sat in a conversation with a friend and we discussed in length problems plaguing our country from illegal immigrants to future war. If two relatively "under educated and qualified" young people could have a decent polite discussion with disagreements, strong opinions on volatile subjects and come up with feasible solutions, why is it too much to ask that a similar action take place by apparent mature, qualified teams of people backed by finance, man power and a country!? ITS PATHETIC and makes respecting our leaders hard. I feel politics should be more about the people than the party. There should be less to gain by being the leading group of people. We need a model of government that breeds integrity, team work and results. What if Labor won when Liberals won - rise together fall together so to speak? All of a sudden question time wouldn't be about making the other look stupid or calling names, it would be about getting the job done! Our leaders need to wake up to the reality that people don't respect the childlike games they play, the conjecture and name calling, the lack of anything productive for the people, the increased taxes and decreased service and the overall joke that they seem to make of the job which entails leading this great country. GROW UP and graduate from the school yard please. I don't care who leads but please lead. Please be there for the people. Please be more about helping those who need it and about setting an example rather than slamming your competition.
We don't care for your pathetic lack of vision nor who ate what for breakfast when your getting paid what you do. Dont try to sell us crap lies to cover up all the problems or give us band-aid solutions because you don't want to face the hard facts. I for one would respect an honest Prime minister who was up front about problems, short comings and failings of the country/government and worked with opposing parties to create solutions to repair past errors and move forward! A man or woman who did this is worthy to lead this country. Politics should be a position of public servant who doesn't gain wealth by leading but gains respect and pride in their achievements and public adoration. Is it too much to ask for a leader? A honest person not wavered by dollar signs nor driven by power or some other frail short coming, not afraid to speak the truth even if it hurts and not scared to make the hard choices. If parties worked together we wouldn't have a tug of war we would have a unified group of people creating motion! I am sick of the time wasted arguing about stupid issues or creating smoke screens like boat people to avoid attention on other bigger issues.
Lets talk effective solutions to letting illegal immigrants into our country without draining center-link and raising taxes, lets talk about the problems with indigenous Australians and how to effectively create solutions to the tough problems because I surely don't want to hear some Hollywood goss next question time. Go work for Scoop la if your more interested in gossip and name calling. If your struggling with ideas get some young people to sit in a room and brainstorm because Im sure we could come up with a solution. Lets see the shift back to being about how you can help the people not how you can get rich from the people or screw someone over to get to where you want to go.
A plane needs two wings to fly and our government needs to create a unity between its left and right wing political parties to actually take off and do something.
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Sunday, 24 July 2011
The future past
Inspired from the events this weekend
It was a past future but 2000 years ago when a king hung on a tree. He hung there for me; against all odds, against his mothers plea. Because when he saw the future he saw me. A fight that was not his, a problem not small. Yet a heart so big took it all on and for me he lived just to pass on that tree. Not nail not wood not thorns or whips not pain not hurt not blood not bruise not slander not hate not abuse not the chance of escape not for gain not for punishment he hung there for me for love for you for our sin for our world for our brokenness for our fears for our lust for our pride for our slander for our hate for our abuse for our gain for our punishment the king of all crucified for the least for all a scandalous tale. In a day that once was a future and once was a present but now is a past that king changed the course of this world.
Now we live in a future to the past and a present so free. So think of your life and every good thing and remember it is a gift from this king, the one we hated the one we despised, yet like only the best love stories he pursued us till we found him and clothed us with his glories. His love a miracle like water and oil mixing as one. It blows my mind to think of that place back in time that my king decided to die for humanity to set us free. It humbles the heart to think of such grace to be given free no purchase. I wish he didn't have to die for me I wish my sin wasn't the cause of death to the king. But thank God yes thank God that history is written and now because of that day which once was the future, present and now is the past I can write this with a confidence that my king had risen my king had won. Now an honor bestowed upon me to serve this king makes me drop to my knees and sing. I cant understand this love for me I cant repay the debt he freely gave me. I cant live up to his standards and so often I still run from this king. I hate this but history is history and the future will come and go but his love for us will never grown old. Its the constant in the equation of life. So let love fill my heart Lord humble me low and not for show all this that I might grow. May his love rest on you, may his love drive you and shine through you. LET LOVE REIGN
xC
It was a past future but 2000 years ago when a king hung on a tree. He hung there for me; against all odds, against his mothers plea. Because when he saw the future he saw me. A fight that was not his, a problem not small. Yet a heart so big took it all on and for me he lived just to pass on that tree. Not nail not wood not thorns or whips not pain not hurt not blood not bruise not slander not hate not abuse not the chance of escape not for gain not for punishment he hung there for me for love for you for our sin for our world for our brokenness for our fears for our lust for our pride for our slander for our hate for our abuse for our gain for our punishment the king of all crucified for the least for all a scandalous tale. In a day that once was a future and once was a present but now is a past that king changed the course of this world.
Now we live in a future to the past and a present so free. So think of your life and every good thing and remember it is a gift from this king, the one we hated the one we despised, yet like only the best love stories he pursued us till we found him and clothed us with his glories. His love a miracle like water and oil mixing as one. It blows my mind to think of that place back in time that my king decided to die for humanity to set us free. It humbles the heart to think of such grace to be given free no purchase. I wish he didn't have to die for me I wish my sin wasn't the cause of death to the king. But thank God yes thank God that history is written and now because of that day which once was the future, present and now is the past I can write this with a confidence that my king had risen my king had won. Now an honor bestowed upon me to serve this king makes me drop to my knees and sing. I cant understand this love for me I cant repay the debt he freely gave me. I cant live up to his standards and so often I still run from this king. I hate this but history is history and the future will come and go but his love for us will never grown old. Its the constant in the equation of life. So let love fill my heart Lord humble me low and not for show all this that I might grow. May his love rest on you, may his love drive you and shine through you. LET LOVE REIGN
xC
Sunday, 15 May 2011
A cry
Inspired from psalm 27
Promise for my future
I'm lost Lord. I can't hear your words. I cant see your way. I walk like a blind man and live like a dumb one.all i do is bring shame to your holy name. God help me yes please help me. Take the lead you and your kingdom first me and my dirt second. A holy exchange where by I reckon my sin and shame for your freedom and love. God send help from above, I'm dieing here I can't breathe, I'm suffocating in my own life. I walk a road and I feel alone but to the truth I cling, I know your there. lord hear me, lord answer me in my desperation. A cry for help a plea for a destination. Be my safe place, my salvation. Yes my salvation Lord. I can't see, I can't hear but let not fear defeat me.
I choose you not sin.
Now here is where my soul so lost turns to the story of his life where he paid the ultimate cost. An act so great, a defeat so big this rhyme takes on a new rhythm which beats through time. His spirit, his grace, and his love pour on me from the skies above flooding me like a monsoon. Yes It's here I begin to match his tune.
Oh lord hear my cry I pray. A man but yet a boy on both knees with a desperate plea, dad come do life with me. It's in your truth I will wait, yes patiently I will wait for you lord. Whether in the depths of darkness or on a mountain top I pray that I would spend my days in harmony with the king. Not like a cheap scandalous one night fling, no much more like something everlasting. That my feet would fall in your foot prints, that my words would match your harmony and my eyes would see what you see. It's this that makes me pray Lord have your way in me this day.
Promise for my future
I'm lost Lord. I can't hear your words. I cant see your way. I walk like a blind man and live like a dumb one.all i do is bring shame to your holy name. God help me yes please help me. Take the lead you and your kingdom first me and my dirt second. A holy exchange where by I reckon my sin and shame for your freedom and love. God send help from above, I'm dieing here I can't breathe, I'm suffocating in my own life. I walk a road and I feel alone but to the truth I cling, I know your there. lord hear me, lord answer me in my desperation. A cry for help a plea for a destination. Be my safe place, my salvation. Yes my salvation Lord. I can't see, I can't hear but let not fear defeat me.
I choose you not sin.
Now here is where my soul so lost turns to the story of his life where he paid the ultimate cost. An act so great, a defeat so big this rhyme takes on a new rhythm which beats through time. His spirit, his grace, and his love pour on me from the skies above flooding me like a monsoon. Yes It's here I begin to match his tune.
Oh lord hear my cry I pray. A man but yet a boy on both knees with a desperate plea, dad come do life with me. It's in your truth I will wait, yes patiently I will wait for you lord. Whether in the depths of darkness or on a mountain top I pray that I would spend my days in harmony with the king. Not like a cheap scandalous one night fling, no much more like something everlasting. That my feet would fall in your foot prints, that my words would match your harmony and my eyes would see what you see. It's this that makes me pray Lord have your way in me this day.
Tuesday, 22 March 2011
A time for Joy
This and the next few entries are inspired by my reading from James.
I have been reading this book in a time in my life where my future is pretty well only a day at a time and not much is in sight. Not that I am by any means doing it tough, no, but a lack of consistent vision and goal has been frustrating me to no end. I'm sure as you have your own problems or worries, trials or tribulations, most probably far more significant than my lack of vision. However we all know the saying, "size doesn't matter"
James 1: 2-4
" 2 Dear brothers and sisters, when troubles come your way, consider it an opportunity for great joy. 3 For you know that when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow. 4 So let it grow, for when your endurance is fully developed, you will be perfect and complete, needing nothing."
Don't you just love life....when its perfect, job is going great, your getting along with the missus or just loving having single as your facebook relationship status (with a few likes), your tight with God, money isn't a problem, car is running well, your healthy..... Basically your at the top of a mountain or maybe a plateau and everything is just peachy....
Don't you just find life such a drag when only one of those things above is starting to cause you to slip off the mountain. Then all of a sudden it seems that we are falling off that mountain faster than you can like something on facebook and BAM! rock bottom. Then out of no where everything hits us. We are struggling at work, car sucks, money is no where to be seen (expect for our tax shouting the boys on the dole at the pub a few) and you start fighting with your friends. One look and it seems that you left the part about being tight with God on the mountain and forgot to anchor life down to that so that when you fall off that mountain (and we always fall) our ropes are tied tight to the unmoving anchor of God. Just me? or is this the recipe for life that normally cooks to perfection but hardly tastes sweet.
When I was reading this vs about counting the troubles of life and the tests of life as an opportunity for joy I was slightly taken aback. To be falling off the mountain there is only one way to count any of the crap life throws at us with joy, to be anchored in our faith. Like say we are on the mountain of life and fall off it...dragged over by our car insurance and phone bill.... we crash down to the ground and should die but cause its a metaphor we just hit the ground hard and there is not a iota of joy in the experience. But if we tie off first bam that jump turns into a face first adrenaline pumping abseil down the mountain only to hit the ground with confidence and a light step. 2 scenarios that have only one difference, our anchor point in life.
In my faith I was challenged because I was having a dodgy attitude to my circumstances. It hit me that where I am is just the next step in my faith, in my life. That I should count it a joy to be abseiling off the mountain top of life because it meant I was strapped in safe and sound to God who wasn't going to let me drop and die and was going to lower me down at a rate no faster than I can handle.
Its in the first few steps over the side of the mountain when your abseiling that are the worst. Its the crunch time of will it hold or not. Am I walking to my death willingly? When we got God we can march over that mountain top strapped in and embrace life and what it throws with confidence that our anchor is at the top so when we are finished we can climb straight back up.
Its not to make light of our circumstances or forget about them, but for me this idea of counting trials a joy it means keeping my focus where it counts on God, and working through the uncomfortable times, knowing that its in the fire we are refined.
I wanna finish this line of thought with what is said in vs 12-18,
" 12 God blesses those who patiently endure testing and temptation. Afterward they will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love him. 13 And remember, when you are being tempted, do not say, “God is tempting me.” God is never tempted to do wrong, and he never tempts anyone else. 14 Temptation comes from our own desires, which entice us and drag us away. 15 These desires give birth to sinful actions. And when sin is allowed to grow, it gives birth to death. 16 So don’t be misled, my dear brothers and sisters. 17 Whatever is good and perfect comes down to us from God our Father, who created all the lights in the heavens. He never changes or casts a shifting shadow. 18 He chose to give birth to us by giving us his true word. And we, out of all creation, became his prized possession.
I love that through the trials and as we are going over the mountain top we can know its all worth it. That for everything we endure we become that little bit more refined. That each day that goes by we can count our challenges with Joy because we know our anchor is God. Just as it says in vs 17, God wont change, he wont let go, no matter how long we are off the top he wont move. For me this is the one real constant in my life, God. And at the end of the day when its all said and done we will be made like him in his perfection. Today I am challenged to live a life that counts my trials with joy not because its easy, not because the trials are not real but because I'm anchored to the top of the mountain by God. I pray that wherever you are, in what ever circumstance you would be blessed abundantly and strengthened to keep running the race and replenished to keep enduring your trials but most of all that you would find a joy in your suffering, peace in your circumstances and new life so free in the one who made you.
x C
I have been reading this book in a time in my life where my future is pretty well only a day at a time and not much is in sight. Not that I am by any means doing it tough, no, but a lack of consistent vision and goal has been frustrating me to no end. I'm sure as you have your own problems or worries, trials or tribulations, most probably far more significant than my lack of vision. However we all know the saying, "size doesn't matter"
James 1: 2-4
" 2 Dear brothers and sisters, when troubles come your way, consider it an opportunity for great joy. 3 For you know that when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow. 4 So let it grow, for when your endurance is fully developed, you will be perfect and complete, needing nothing."
Don't you just love life....when its perfect, job is going great, your getting along with the missus or just loving having single as your facebook relationship status (with a few likes), your tight with God, money isn't a problem, car is running well, your healthy..... Basically your at the top of a mountain or maybe a plateau and everything is just peachy....
Don't you just find life such a drag when only one of those things above is starting to cause you to slip off the mountain. Then all of a sudden it seems that we are falling off that mountain faster than you can like something on facebook and BAM! rock bottom. Then out of no where everything hits us. We are struggling at work, car sucks, money is no where to be seen (expect for our tax shouting the boys on the dole at the pub a few) and you start fighting with your friends. One look and it seems that you left the part about being tight with God on the mountain and forgot to anchor life down to that so that when you fall off that mountain (and we always fall) our ropes are tied tight to the unmoving anchor of God. Just me? or is this the recipe for life that normally cooks to perfection but hardly tastes sweet.
When I was reading this vs about counting the troubles of life and the tests of life as an opportunity for joy I was slightly taken aback. To be falling off the mountain there is only one way to count any of the crap life throws at us with joy, to be anchored in our faith. Like say we are on the mountain of life and fall off it...dragged over by our car insurance and phone bill.... we crash down to the ground and should die but cause its a metaphor we just hit the ground hard and there is not a iota of joy in the experience. But if we tie off first bam that jump turns into a face first adrenaline pumping abseil down the mountain only to hit the ground with confidence and a light step. 2 scenarios that have only one difference, our anchor point in life.
In my faith I was challenged because I was having a dodgy attitude to my circumstances. It hit me that where I am is just the next step in my faith, in my life. That I should count it a joy to be abseiling off the mountain top of life because it meant I was strapped in safe and sound to God who wasn't going to let me drop and die and was going to lower me down at a rate no faster than I can handle.
Its in the first few steps over the side of the mountain when your abseiling that are the worst. Its the crunch time of will it hold or not. Am I walking to my death willingly? When we got God we can march over that mountain top strapped in and embrace life and what it throws with confidence that our anchor is at the top so when we are finished we can climb straight back up.
Its not to make light of our circumstances or forget about them, but for me this idea of counting trials a joy it means keeping my focus where it counts on God, and working through the uncomfortable times, knowing that its in the fire we are refined.
I wanna finish this line of thought with what is said in vs 12-18,
" 12 God blesses those who patiently endure testing and temptation. Afterward they will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love him. 13 And remember, when you are being tempted, do not say, “God is tempting me.” God is never tempted to do wrong, and he never tempts anyone else. 14 Temptation comes from our own desires, which entice us and drag us away. 15 These desires give birth to sinful actions. And when sin is allowed to grow, it gives birth to death. 16 So don’t be misled, my dear brothers and sisters. 17 Whatever is good and perfect comes down to us from God our Father, who created all the lights in the heavens. He never changes or casts a shifting shadow. 18 He chose to give birth to us by giving us his true word. And we, out of all creation, became his prized possession.
I love that through the trials and as we are going over the mountain top we can know its all worth it. That for everything we endure we become that little bit more refined. That each day that goes by we can count our challenges with Joy because we know our anchor is God. Just as it says in vs 17, God wont change, he wont let go, no matter how long we are off the top he wont move. For me this is the one real constant in my life, God. And at the end of the day when its all said and done we will be made like him in his perfection. Today I am challenged to live a life that counts my trials with joy not because its easy, not because the trials are not real but because I'm anchored to the top of the mountain by God. I pray that wherever you are, in what ever circumstance you would be blessed abundantly and strengthened to keep running the race and replenished to keep enduring your trials but most of all that you would find a joy in your suffering, peace in your circumstances and new life so free in the one who made you.
x C
Friday, 11 March 2011
Coming soon
Thought I would let y'all know that been reading book of James in the word and wow it's been hitting hard gunn a be wriitting up in detail my rev over the next coupla days so stay tuned :) x
Monday, 7 March 2011
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