While playing football with some Seniors at the High School on Thursday I broke my leg.  The leg has two bones running down the inside, the Fibula and the Tibia.  Well, I had a meeting with the concrete at full speed and my fibula was the weakest link. 

As I lay in the sick bay (infirmary) at the High School I felt these strange feelings of immense gratitude and thanks to God all over me.  I knew that what was happening to me was actually very good, and that God was going to use this whole experience in a very good way.  Despite the pain I was feeling physically at the time, I must say I had a tremendous sense of well being in every other way. 

That was one of the most enjoyable touch footy games ever. We were winning 14 to 8 when I had an "appointment" with the concrete. I'm up at the hospital getting X-Rays to see how my leg is going.

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The underwater observatory has been shut for a number of years now, but it is still there and the fish that hang around it are still there.  I was blessed to go scuba diving there last week and took a few photos.  The owner of the observatory is Tower Holdings Pty Ltd and they have plans for it along with their resort on Keppel Island.  However in the meantime – you can get a sort of a glimpse from

Gideons as an organisation is made up of great Christian folks who hand out Bibles for free all around the world, and here in Australia too.  They have these little tiny bibles in a variety of colours.  When I was a grade 8 student I received a little red bible, but only a few years later I had no idea where it could be.  I really wanted to get one again. 

So they have little white ones for nurses, little green ones for the army, little gold ones for doctors, and little blue ones as a general colour for everyone. 

A few months ago I wrote about the issue of slavery and how so much of the world’s chocolate (about 95%) is created on the back of slaves in Western Africa.  Well, today I was so happy to be in the shops and see sitting on the racks, a heap of chocolate bars with the freetrade logo stamped on the packaging.  I was so happy I bought a block of chocolate.

Over the years I’ve heard many Christians say “God knows my heart.”  Usually they say it after they make some kind of mistake and this saying is said as a kind of sentiment to reflect that “they meant well” so God won’t mind.  At times it has been used to excuse all sorts of terrible behaviour.

Anyway, I want to examine this phrase for just one moment and see exactly what the Bible has to say about “our hearts.” 

The last ten days I’ve built a website for a man in Alton Downs who is a new dealer for Enfly and Lenora tractors here in Australia.  These two tractors are new in Australia in 2010, and so it’s been kind of fun building a tractor website, which is something I’ve never done before.  So, if you want a tractor, and I know many guys who do, perhaps these are the

On Monday, my son and a few of my brothers and a cousin went fishing out at Great Keppel Island.  My son who is 8 had never been on a boat before and had never been fishing before either.  So it was a great day for him. 

Recently my son painted his first piece of artwork, and I was able to list it on eBay for him.  It was purchased for $2.50 by a lady living in Cremorne in Victoria.  Titus was very excited to have sold his painting.  Also, postage was less than we estimated and so he also made an additional $1.80 there.  All up he made $4.30.  Not bad for a nine year old’s first attempt at painting.  Well done Titus. 

In a hypothetical situation, I am approached by a 11 year old Christian church attending boy who confesses to being gay, and that he fears he will go to hell as a result.  He doesn’t want anyone, especially not his family to know.  What would you do?