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What I should be doing!

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Ok so, I should be writing a talk for women's church which is getting very close. But I'm not. I have gotten stuck at the plagarizing John Piper point of my sermon and am currently convincing myself that adding a few inappropriate bogan words the night before will probably suffice (not because of the audience who are not at all bogan  ;-) but because of the speaker!) I should be folding the washing - which has been sitting in a HUGE pile on our lounge since Rudd reigned, and also in not one, but TWO large shopping bags on the floor . Want proof? I should be getting organised to return to work tomorrow - bye bye annual leave :-( I should be stacking a second load in the dishwasher (which my hubby caved in and bought me, after my 8 year washing up strike, on my promise that I would "become the perfect housewife if I just had a dishwasher" (stupid I know). I should be sleeping (it is midnight). But here I am posting crap and pr...

Anger and Maturity?

So, it turns out I am a bit useless at updating this thing regularly - but since the trillions of you reading this have been so encouraging, I will press on! ;-) Anyway, recently I have been thinking about 2 things in depth: 1) Pornography/lust (briefly for the record, I am not keen on it, if that isn't obvious to you) 2) Handling emotions that stem from hurts, specifically anger. I am still thinking through the porn/lust stuff, so I will start with the harder topic! Recently an organisation I belong to went through a "split". The process involved was long and painful and many meetings were had in order to reach unity in beliefs. Wrongs were done. Hurts were raw. And offence was taken. Some people were boxed as too emotional and selfish, and some were boxed as too intellectual and unfeeling. In the end the differences in thinking were too great for some and they decided they would leave the organisation. (I feel I cannot giv...