Four Seasons in One Day

If you have come across Australia in the news since New Year... then you've probably heard...

• That we're experiencing FLOODs
• That we can't play CRICKET
• That it's warmer than usual (I think it's called LA NINA)
• That the TENNIS is on
• That there's been FIRES outside of Perth
• That Lance Armstrong is around Adelaide riding his BIKE
• That we're experiencing FLOODs!

I had to put the floods in twice as that's only a few made up headlines of my own since this year started... and that doesn't even cover MY NEWS.... like job, house, family, friends, etc, etc....

Suffice to say that when it doesn't rain it pours... and that the only thing you can expect from the weather in Melbourne, is that the forecast is only an educated guess!  One of my resident's at work even told me it's been likened to New York?!?!

I prefer our own Home-grown Melbourne pop version... and apologies to anyone who disapproves of bad language.  This band, Crowded House wrote this song a little bit about the town that they were formed in.  Now days the Lead Singer, Neil Finn, is back and forth from New Zealand.  The Drummer, Paul Hester, died a couple of years ago, and the Bass player, Nick Seymour, is still with the band along with Neil and a couple of other "newies".  If you're interested in their sound check out more about the band in the link.

Here in Melbourne tonight it is a clear starry sky, with a bright, full moon and some high cirrus clouds.  We've had a couple of fairly cool (low 20 degrees C) days, but the forecast is for warmer (moister) weather leading up to the weekend!

The only thing that stays the same is that I love to sing!  Tonight it's "moon" songs again... like "How High The Moon" or "Fly Me to the Moon"... maybe "Moon dance"... whichever song I sing.... I eventually come back to some kind of lullaby... or it will be AWFULLY hard to get up when my alarm goes off in the morning!

Guten-nacht.... iio tenki desu ne? (Goodnight... it's a nice day, isn't it?) xo xo xo xo

Song of the week is back for 2011!

Happy New Year everyone... I thought I'd re-start a tradition I began last year... if I aim for once a week at least it means I blog once a week most of the time, eh?

I'll blog a bit more about my plans for 2011 soon... in the meantime here's a track I'm enjoying at the moment:

My Will - DC Talk

I'm setting the stage for the things I love

And I'm not the man I once couldn't be

Nothing on earth could now ever move me

I now have the will and the strength a man needs

         Chorus

         It's my will, I'm not moving

         Cause if it's your will, then nothing can shake me

         It's my will, to bow and praise you

         I now have the will to praise my God

Complexity haunts me, for I am two men

Entrenched in a battle that I'll never win

My discipline fails me my knowledge it fools me

But you are my shelter all the strength that I need

          Repeat Chorus

I'm learning to give up the rights to myself

The bits and the pieces I've gathered as wealth

Could never compare to the joy that you bring me

The peace that you show me is the strength that I need

          Repeat Chorus (We've got to be children of peace)

In one of the repeat choruses they also sing, it's your will not mine....

So much of the Christian journey is a "battle of wills".  Sometimes I think that I'm following God's will for my life, only to discover that I chose what I wanted.  Sometimes too the battle is even deeper... a battle between God's voice and the devil's.  Is that voice in our conscience the still small voice of our Heaven Father... our experience... or the voice of one who doesn't want us to follow his leading?  When making an important decision I think it is worth wondering who's will you are following.


Even in this New Year (including if you're not a Christian).  Will you follow the negative voice of past hurts, or difficult experiences that prevent you from going somewhere or trying something new?  Or will you put the past behind you, trust in your skills, experience and knowledge and take a risk?


Who's will are you following in you life?  Are you willing to make a change for the better?


I've just been thinking.... what do you think? Joce xo xo <><