Stain Removal

I got bitten by a leech while on a bush walk and it was several hours before I found out.  When I got home and took my shoes off, I found I had a leech as big as my second toe. In removing it I got blood all over the...

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Unmarked Paths

I remember doing a rainforest walk in Royal National Park with a group of friends and getting lost for hours.  We were originally following the set path and I decided to follow a track that seemed better. We followed ‘my path’ for quite a while.  As time went by I...

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One-Arm Pushups

When I was younger I wanted to learn how to do one arm pushups so I began reading books by experts.  All the systems I studied had a common principle of doing pushups… regularly, daily, several times a day, day in day out, for weeks.  I learned that, “if something...

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Taxes

On the 24th May 2017 all Federal Government agencies were told to search their records for any links to ‘Plutus Payroll’ a company involved in an alleged $165 million tax fraud. Are we morally obligated to pay taxes?  Why can’t people keep the money they have earned? What does the...

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Renting

Renting or lending your property to people is a tricky thing.  Finding the right person, who will care for your things, while using them, is hard. You want to avoid two extremes.  At one end, there are people who will not take any responsibility for what they have on loan;...

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Eccentric Ministry

“And, oh, dear brothers, who are engaged in winning souls, let me say to you, by the memories of all these good men who have gone before you, and who were counted eccentric, fear no man’s frown, and court no man’s smile, but say the right thing and the true,...

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Eccentric People

What is it to be eccentric? The short and easy method for determining the meaning of a word is to go to the dictionary. Dr. Samuel Johnson, what say you? The sage replies, “It signifies deviating from the center, or not having the same center as another circle.” …an eccentric...

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Mind Attic

I love reading Sherlock Holmes stories.  Below is one of my favourite quotes. “I consider that a man’s brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he...

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Compassion

I like to think I’m a compassionate person. If I see a bad situation on the TV, I feel sorry for those people. I even give to charity – some charities, sometimes. But is that what compassion looks like? On Wednesday I took part in the SRE seminar at Penshurst...

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Purgatory

Have you ever heard of purgatory? In a nutshell, purgatory is where all believers are said to go, after death, to complete their purification through suffering for the consequences of sins not already punished for while alive on earth. “purification, so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the...

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