Aussie Joy's Life

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… [...]

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 [...]

I’m really not much into politics probably because I wasn’t brought up in an environment that openly talked politics.  It’s a big issue though.  We see every election – whether in America or Australia (for me) candidates make promises and then break them by using lots of big words and complicated jargon the average joy [...]

Today, my roomate Mandy and I joined ‘Hands on Nashville’ to help clean up Nashville after this past weekends notorious flood.  Potentially over one billion dollars worth of damage! It’s so unbelievable driving through ‘normal’ neighbourhoods and seeing basically entire contents of people’s homes in a sopping, decaying mess out on the curbside awaiting disposal. [...]

Good Friday is a hard day for me to get my head around… to even remotely comprehend… to assume the right posture… to be reverent… yet excited and grateful… to realise the full extent of what Christ did by dying on the cross for MY sin.  It could be looked at as the ‘Remembrance Day’ of [...]

One month ago, tomorrow, my dear friend Jenna was diagnosed with a brain tumor.  This blog has shared many of the stories from that time.  I’m so grateful for the miraculous recover that Jenna has had so far and am excited to share a blog entry written by her for you all! Arrogance of the [...]