Waiting. Waiting. Pacing the floor outside the room where your wife is in the last stages of delivering your first born. You can hear the cries of pain and the flurry of activity intensifies. Complications had set in and you were ushered out of the room. Waiting. Waiting. Footsteps. A nurse appears… but she scurries…
Have you ever observed an AFL footy match? There are 45,000 people desperately in need of exercise watching 36 people desperately in need of a rest. It is easy to watch others do all the work. Nicky Gumbel of Alpha tells of a man who wrote to his pastor: “Dear Pastor, There are 566 people…
Imagine. The verdict is in, the gavel comes down hard and the judgment is sealed. BANG! The Supreme Court has ruled. There is no further appeal. All that is left is the sentence to be carried out. Will there be rejoicing or will there be despair? It depends on the verdict – guilty or not…
Loved sex. Loved getting drunk. Loved gambling. Loved money and all it could buy. Loved getting my own way. Hated coloured people, especially Aboriginees, Asians, and Indians. Hated loud mouthed Americans. Hated do-gooders. Hated anything I didn’t want to understand or wasn’t like me. Hey, and I was quite happy! Then I discovered for myself…
There are some roads in outback Queensland that are long, very long, and straight. Where there are dangerous drops there are guard rails. Also where the shoulders are soft (dangerous to drive on because its so easy to loose control) there are warning signs. The sheep and cattle stations fence their properties and where the…
How annoying! I was really ticked off. Getting a delivery of mulch dropped off on the nature strip makes sense. I have nowhere else to drop it off. If I drop it in my driveway it will stain the concrete. I can’t access any part of my property and have no spot to unload it,…
Have you ever grabbed a hot potato chip (french fries) out of a fryer? That thing is so hot that you are unable to hold it. You quickly juggle it and hold it lightly for short bursts of time in fear of getting burnt. You don’t want to let it go, but one slip and…
A kid with his bike and a world to explore. “Don’t play in the dumping grounds on the outskirts of town”, warned mum, “It is too dangerous.” Well, that’s like a personal invitation to a ten year old. To ride up and down the huge mounds of dirt scraped off to make way for a…
The harness is secured tightly around my thighs, the tummy, chest and over the shoulders. I walk up six steps on the ladder and face my tormentor. This is crazy. The knees begin to shake and the tummy turns over. The safety instructor rigs the winching rope with the release cord. Final instructions and encouragement…