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Today I am off to Melbourne for a few days – one of the Oz cities I really do like – despite its weather!

Tomorrow will be a cruisy day but come Tuesday I head to Melbourne for 3 days to be part of the Forge national gathering – a meeting of the reps from the various states.

Darren will be putting me up – thanks mate! And I’ll be able to hang with his crew at Living room on Tuesday night.

Then Wednesday and Thursday is meeting time – hopefully very inspirational, but potentially a bit of admin stuff to chew thru as well.

Friday is my first day back at school as a teacher (a student free day – yeeha!) Real life is hitting…

Mick from across the street came over yesterday and told me he’d seen a ton of crays down at the local beach and that we ought to go grab a few.

Sounded like a good plan…

As we were working on his decking yesterday afternoon we planned it all out. License, catch bag, dive gear, mop heads, etc etc.

This morning at 6.00 we headed out… It was one of those very weird, misty mornings with virtually no visibility.

The cray count stands at ‘0’ so far!

Like most things its harder than it looks… maybe tomorrow morning…

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Where did yesterday go?

It was one of those days when I just couldn’t get motivated for anything at all. You ever have those when you have heaps to do, but just can’t seem to settle?

I spent a lot of time wandering around doing inconsequential things that achieved next to nothing…

Oh well – today is a new day.

I wrote some stuff here this morning but accidentally hit ‘back’ on my browser and lost it all.

That’s about it for today I think!

Today I leave home very shortly and don’t return until… well pretty late I think…

I’m meeting Brian Harris the new Baptist Theological College principal to discuss how we (Forge) can partner with them, then there’s the new surfing movie Step into Liquid which I’ll be seeing with my brother – should be huge! And finally a small group of us are out to dinner in Leederville with Steve who is over here for the social justice experience/camp called AMUC (among the urban community).

In between that I’ll be finding time to pray, read and run!

See you another day…

Home page opens… click the link to here… and then to here…

From there I plan the rest of the day… work or surf?…

Today looks like work…

(If it only it were that simple 🙂

Today I left home at 7.30 for some time in the water up at a little fishing town called Lancelin as well some prayer and reflection.

The webcam was telling me good things about the surf but the images were down – a gamble!

So I hitched up the Queen Mary and set off on the hour long drive. I used to surf Lancelin when I was in my teens and early 20’s but haven’t been back since then. It has many ‘fond’ memories of early morning (4.00) starts and surfing three times before driving home exhausted at 3.00 in the afternoon. The number of times I nearly fell asleep at the wheel are too scary to contemplate…

It was also a place of teenage hijinx and mayhem – enough said!

Today was one of those sensational days – great weather, surf and diving and some really good time with God.

Its when I do these things on my own that I become very aware that I am not alone – that I am sharing the day with God and that we are enjoying it together. (sorry you couldn’t come today Sephto – you would have loved it)

How nice to have a boat though!

The best wave up there is a 40 min paddle from shore… or a 4 min boat ride! Four guys asked me for a ride out, but sadly I had only one life jacket (illegal unless everyone has one with $1K fines and boat confiscation) ‘sorry guys!’ Big bummer… hehe!

The surf was about chest high and real nice. I went for a dive out behind the island too – crystal clear. Lots of fish! I wanted to go buy a spear gun so I could do a ‘Rupert’ and catch a few.

When the breeze came in I headed back to shore and was met a very attractive woman in a bikini offering to help me get the boat back on the trailer.

‘Sure…’

I spent some more time in prayer and reflection at the local cafe, eating a lame salad roll and drinking some petty ordinary coffee.

I decided to come home rather than stay the night. An hours drive or $80.00 for a room?

Might go back again tomorrow…

If you’re a beachy kind of person then you’ll appreciate the kind of day I’ve just described. If you’re not then you probably haven’t read this far!

Rod gave me the tip off that Phil Baker has a blog.

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(if you could call it that). It is certainly ‘the’ big church in Perth with 3 or 4 thousand attending services.

That probably makes some Americans laugh, but in a city as small as ours that’s big!

Phil is a very earthy bloke, an excellent communicator and the church does some great things in the community.

Its obviously a long way (both philosophically and geographically) from where we at here in Brighton but it is one expression of the church that is cutting it for a slice of the population.

Until Friday I have no children and no wife…

Danelle and kids have gone to stay with her mum and grandmother for the week on the other side of the city.

Right now I’m thinking about how much I will miss them… and also how much I will sleep in, stay up late, have fun, hit the beach etc etc…

Yes it will be tough!

Actually I’m thinking a two day retreat to Lancelin might be just the trick for getting focussed. Right now I feel like I need to settle in and chew thru some serious prep work before Feb hits and I am overloaded.

After a year of long service leave and relative ease I am feeling the pressure of deadlines and commitments again.

Maybe its just that I am being called to a life of surfing, sleep ins and watching the cricket? (Funny thing is thar after 2 years of kids I can’t stay un bed past 7.30am)