There are so many things happening in the world today which cause us concern, that it would be easy for us to lose hope – hope of a peaceful, joyful future. Mother Mary must have understood this, so was instrumental in the card reading that I did for Friday on Instagram. As we approach Christmas, Mother Mary wants us to know that, just as God had plans for the Earth
For this week’s blog, I wanted to tell you a little story about what happened to me last week when I was posting last week’s blog, or trying to. I always type my blog in Word and then copy and paste it onto my Wordpress site, normally without any problems. I usually write it and post it on a Friday. Last week, after writing my blog as usual, when I
Cassie We had to take our dog, Cassie, to the vet today. (She’s ok, just has a bit of a cough.) But this started me thinking about how important animals are to us on this planet. Last week I wrote about the importance of trees, but have you ever stopped to think how important the animals are to this planet? The importance of each species to an ecosystem
I travelled to Adelaide and back to Brisbane by plane last week, and as I flew overhead and looked out at the scenery, I was disturbed to see the amount of natural bushland which had been cleared to make way for farmland. Whilst I saw some large tracts of bushland still remaining, there was a lot more removed than there was remaining. I know we read that our lifestyle and
This week I signed a petition, which called on the Prime Minister and the company who owned him, to free a steer which had escaped when being loaded onto a ship for live export. This poor beast had swum and walked for kilometres in order to escape the fate which his owners had in mind for him, only to be caught and to die at the hands of the humans
There are two issues which come to mind today. One is the pink elephant in the room – the new president of the United States of America. The other is the fact that the day I am writing this is the 11th day of the 11th month, and at 11.00 this morning, in the middle of our choir practice, we had 2 minutes silence to remember those fallen in the
I have heard so much about the water protesters at Standing Rock on Facebook. I don’t know if there is any mention of it on Australian television news, because I don’t watch it. I feel a strong urge to support the indigenous people at Standing Rock, yet I don’t really understand why. There have been other indigenous peoples, in other struggles against big business and the governments which support that
I was reminded by facebook of the video I posted a year ago about live animal exports. I believe that the majority of Australians, if given all of the facts, would be against this trade. The problem is that, as in any industry where animals are used, animal welfare tends to take second place to the almighty dollar. Although the Australian government has sought to increase the markets to which
I read the book, Tomorrow’s God, by Neale Donald Walsch, a few years ago, and I picked it up again recently to confirm something that I was writing about. As I started flipping through the pages, I began reading the book once more, from cover to cover. This book contains some dire warnings from God: “Life is functional, adaptable, and sustainable. When it moves toward the edge of functionality –
I love trees, particularly big old gum trees. The other day I was walking along a bush path in a local reserve, stepping over fallen branches and small trees as I went. I began to contemplate how it is that so many branches, and even trees, fall down, without hurting anyone who happens to be walking along the paths. Sometimes even huge branches and large gum trees have ended up