The truth is that so often I will ignore the positive stuff, even if it is well and truly in the majority, and deal with, agonise over the one person who is critical, even if I hardly know them.

Perry Noble has a great heartfelt post and he says this,

” wish that wasn’t me. I really do wish I could let that stuff slide…but I can’t because I have dedicated my life to what we are doing…and I sincerely believe it is the right thing.
SO…because of this I have spent an unhealthy amount of time over the past year or so trying to defend what we are doing here…and in doing so I believe I have managed to convince exactly zero detractors. I have allowed the enemy to distract me and get me so unfocused–and it has done this church AND the Kingdom no good at all.”

Nobles Post

h/t lowercase

Checking back through my esnips site, which is where I store all my messages in audio format.
Most messages get about 10-12 unique downloads/listens. The figure shown on the website is often not accurate, you have to do a bit of digging to get the right amount.

Well anyway….my Good Friday message has been downloaded over 80 times. Thats extraordinary for me….. Hope people liked it and got something out of it.

facts are true………. namely that Judd has bought a house in Melbourne, and Rebecca has been offered a job with channel nine Melbourne.

Pavlich has declared at a local Footy function that he would be staying on at the Dockers in 2008. He has also stated that, unlike Chris Judd, he is willing to sign a new contract before the end of the year. During the pre-season Matthew took ten weeks to decide whether to accept the club’s offer of the Captaincy.
Negotiations are only in the infancy stage, but all the signs are looking postive.

Shaun McManus will be playing his 200th game this Sunday.
He is the type of player that supporters love. There is nothing left when Shaun plays, he gives it all. One thing I have noticed this year is how he really wants to win. You may think that is an unusual thing to say, because don’t all players want to win? Yes, but it appears to me that when things get tough, and a game looks like slipping from Freo’s grasp, Shaun’s workrate goes up another notch. Maybe this is why when Freo loses a game, Shaun comes up as one of the better players.

He has lots of experience in losing sides, having been club captain during the disasterous Drum years. He faced up to the scathing sports reporters week after week.

Now, he is starting to have some success. Despite our poor start to the season, we are getting some good players back, have had our first win, and there is every reason to think we might justify our pre season premiership aspirations.
Would there be anything better for a Freo fan that seeing Shaun jump up on the stage and help lift up that cup?
The cheer for him if he recieved a premiership medallion would be the loudest of all, except perhaps Parker, who would recieve equal appreciation.

One of my favourite players, and a trule genuine and nice guy.
One of the many reasons Freo supporters love their team.

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Its all in your mind (Second of three)

We were really blessed this week to have Quentin interview Marj and Billy. These two ladies both had different experiences of the war.

Marj (Lady on left) was as a 12 year old shipped off to Canada with other children. However this was not before she remembers the frightening reality of bunkers and war sirens, and bombs falling near her town.

Billy (Lady in middle) was married only a short time, and they had their first child, before her husband was shipped off for five years to places such as New Guinea.

You can hear the interview or download it. The volume is not great, so turn it up.