Aussie Joy's Life

This past weekend I had the honour of being a bridesmaid for Jenna and Aaron Horn’s wedding! Jenna was one of the first friends I ever met in Nashville when I first moved here.  She reached out to me at a young adults gathering at Michael W Smith’s barn during one of the first weeks [...]

I just had to share this incredible story a leader in Townsville (1500kms from Easterfest) Peter Thomas Hall shared with me about their experience at the festival – that ended a little different to anything we expected! (see previous posts) Testimony of the “One Heart, One Mind” Easterfest 2011 Tour “As Iron Sharpens Iron, so [...]

You can catch up with Part one of the crazy saga that unfolded at Easterfest in my earlier post – A bitter sweet Easterfest. “What are we going to do to make sure we don’t get a repeat of Saturday nights flash flooding at Easterfest next year.  I really want to come again but I [...]

The other day I had the most interesting conversation with my optometrist about how to find good employees.  A bit of our history… I was friends with his sister during high school and he somehow convinced us to let him and his now wife go on their first date riding my horses!  Evidently it worked… [...]

Yesterday was a bit of an emotionally daunting day… (thus the failure to blog!) We came over to my bros house for power and brekky… The floods waters had begun to subside and I got really restless and hated the thought of sitting around and doing nothing.  The night before I had posted a blog [...]

It’s so surreal saying things like “The flood peak is expected 5 hours from now in the Brisbane river” and “now is the time to evacuate” … Scott McDonald Last night, Ipswich was inundated with the murky, brown sea of water.  At 2am, the two guys stranded at my house (Dave – Easterfest work colleague and Andrew his friend [...]

My mother was given this handmade leather handbag (we think) in 1978 as a Christmas present by my dad.  30 years later I found it and it’s now classified as vintage and has held its value!  I love it… and I love that you can mix black with brown and be fashionably acceptable – much [...]

Today I met some real live hero’s – Des and Jenny Oatridge.  They wouldn’t agree with me and probably would be embarrassed that I’m mentioning them in my blog.  A few weeks ago I finished reading the book ‘Hidden People’ about their story with the Binumarien tribe in Papua New Guinea.  It is a remarkable [...]

I’ve been learning a lot lately about cherishing and treasuring the season I’m in.  God, for whatever reason, has allowed me to be still doing life single… I was going to say ‘alone’ but I don’t actually feel that is really the case for the most part.  I feel so richly blessed by the precious [...]

Today I met up with a ‘twitter’ friend from Newcastle, Rick Prosser who happened to be in meetings across the road from the Easterfest office, where I was working today.  We had a really interesting conversation.  Having just returned from a 25 day Easterfest trip I was sharing a little about the places I visited [...]