Halloween

Dunno if you've heard but Australia is home to several of the deadliest spiders on the planet.
We got that memo from my cousin, Katie McDonald (living in Melbourne).
On our second day on the island we were getting ready to take the car out when we noticed two hairy friends in our garage. Now Caroline waits until the garage door is wide open before dashing past the gatekeepers.
We thought Halloween might be the right time to introduce our friends. Happy Halloween!

Together as One

Tonight we went to the Hillsong church Together As One concert recording. Some of you may have heard of the bands Hillsong or Hillsong United. Our church is the home church of those bands. Several years ago the church realized that visitors to Sydney were asking,"What's the church that Hillsong United plays at?" Eventually church leadership changed the name all together to capitalize on the opportunity to reach more people for Christ through the gifts God had given them.
Needless to say Hillsong is a very musically focused church and tonight was the live album recording. Over 11,000 people from our (yeah I just said our) 4 Sydney area locations met for the annual event at Olympic Park in Sydney's western suburbs.
What a unique opportunity to feel the holy spirit. We were blessed to be a part of the service. We love the people at Hillsong church. God is watching over us.

I don't want to fail to mention that we carpooled to the event with Caroline's boss from Northern Beaches Christian Schools. Anne and her husband are members at Hillsong and parents of one of the worship leaders who was on stage tonight, Sam. Just another blessing to have a boss that would be a part of our lives outside of work.

It was also really cool to see the venues from the 2000 Games. I'm sure we will return for some tours soon.

Milly

Just to make sure not all of the posts are too serious…
Introducing Milly, our new Toyota Echo. What a beauty. 33 MPGs.
We also like to think that we brought good luck to the All Blacks as we bought this all black car on the same day as the New Zealand All Black rugby team broke the 24 year curse and won the Rugby World Cup!

Corinthians 13

 

LOVE.

It's an interesting word in our culture today, one that has been twisted around and manipulated to be something it wasn't meant to be. A word that we struggled for years to figure out it's true meaning and purpose, and ultimately how did God create it to be in marriage. 

It was only about a year and a half ago when we came to realize that true love was a commitment, a promise we would have to make to one another every single day, just as God does for us. It isn't something based on feelings or emotions, although those are often by it's side, but a decision we would make no matter what might come our way. It was almost after 3 years of being together that we were able to understand God's meaning of love, and a time to verbally make that commitment to each other. 

So this is a blog about our love, and how we are juggling the joys of life together day by day. 

"Love is not a place

To come and go as we please

It's a house we enter in

Then commit to never leave

So lock the door behind you

Throw away the key

We'll work it out together

Let it bring us to our knees

Love is a shelter in a raging storm

Love is peace in the middle of a war

And if we try to leave, may God send angels to guard the door

No, love is not a fight but it's something worth fighting for

To some, love is a word

That they can fall into

But when they're falling out

Keeping that word is hard to do

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Love will come to save us

If we'll only call

He will ask nothing from us

But demand we give our all

I will fight for you

Would you fight for me?

It's worth fighting for"

- Warren Barfield