the rhythm of youth

people have always asked me why it is that i am so passionately called to children's and youth ministry.

oh there are so many reasons, my friends!

i love the way they tell each other stories...



watching them gently interact socially...



seeing the instinctive way in which they minister to each other without adult intervention...


watching them frolick happily together....


seeing them play so gently with their toys....


.... but i think i can say with all honesty that its so easy to be satified in it. indeed, any day that doesn't end in death or multiple fractures can be counted a success!

FINALLY!

the answer to a mystery that has no doubt been plaguing australians for years

memories of Oz. volume II

things i have learned about australians:

they are tough:


what for us was a lethal upper respitory disease that crippled tourism to toronto for a year is, to an australian, a refreshing beverage.


even their yogurt is menacing:

notice how effectively the product placement people have gotten the yogurt to "lurk"




not to mention the intimidation tactics used by their trash bins:

you'll be please to know, that as a canadian, i do as i'm told...

memories of Oz. volume I

things i have learned about australia....

in australia, the wombat is sacred:




as my husband quipped, "of course its still "under construction". they won't be installing sattelite until monday!"