Annie's Blog

A very relevant quote from the Sounds Bites Ministry lately: Professor Donald Francis Toney often said to his students at Edinburgh that in music the rests are just as important as the notes. At first that appears to be an exaggeration, but musicians tell me that a choral or orchestra director soon learns that without careful attention to pause, the music will lose much of its beauty. So in the music of life, the rests must be written into the score. That's the way we keep coming in trust to God. We deliberately wait on the Lord to receive the gift of [rest]. -- Maxie Dunnam in Living the Psalms: A Confidence for All Seasons   SOUND BITES is a free, five-day-a-week e-mail ministry begun in 1999 in memory of Dustin Wilkinson, 1982-1998.  Rev. Dave Wilkinson is founder and editor. SOUND BITES originates from First United Methodist Church in Green Bay , Wisconsin, USA.  SOUND BITES Ministry™ is also available as a blog at www.SOUNDBITESministry. blogs...

from a little book of mine come these thoughts on Prayer and Responsibility Psalm 61:1-2  Hear my cry, O God; listen to my prayer. From the ends of the earth I call to you, I call as my heart grows faint; lead me to the rock that is higher than I. And Charles Ringma in his Dare to Journey says that  "in these reflections, we have stressed the importance of personal responsibility. We are not to see ourselves as passive in a difficult world. We don't simply react to what is happening around us. And we don't see ourselves as moved by God without playing a responsible part. We have stressed that we are called to make choices, take initiatives, run risks, take up challenges, create opportunities, embark on adventures and at times take steps of faith the outcomes of which lie well beyond our present knowing. However, the stress on responsibility is not an argument for self sufficiency. In fact, the opposite is true. The person who can act responsibly and daringly ...

been a little busy to post...

My Collection of Words and Numbers from the archives.. mainly from my cell phone. Representing some of my favorite activities photographing buildings and their inscriptions Doing sudokus Quilting Singing Praises Coffee with friends (mosaics) Apologies once again. My aim is to get my camera working before the next challenge. I hope I didn't say that last month! To join in, or to view some other particpants in this challenge visit Donna's PHOTO CHALLENGE BLOG Many thanks to Donna for hosting this monthly challenge, especially under some challenging recent personal difficulties.  One day with a proper camera I might be able to try to improve my photography skills! Especially when I am out from under a load of unpacking and sorting still to be done. However having little children visit and for sleepovers, is always great fun and a good diversion!

more art work from the beach at Mooloolaba the other day...  did I show you the close up of the Steve Irwin memorial yet?  there are some nice fish and chip shops over there too  I love doing sudokus, but some of these are easy even though they say difficult  some of them a bit harder and some I am finding impossible!!! Doh.  did I show you the lego scene some enterprising person built for the Winter Olympics, these photos  taken from the news item on the ABC tv breakfast show  what fun. But I missed the local lego exhibition...what a shame..just glad the kids got to see it anyway!  some ginger flowers hiding away in the shrubbery as I went for a walk the other day and the view out the back from the dentist, eye specialist and the x-ray imaging we have visited in the last few days...not a bad view! All this written while i was minding a sleeping baby. Then baby awoke. Walked, fed, burped, played, asleep again. W...