With Melinda’s Nanna passing away last week….things have been pretty rotten…as well as being busy around here.
I have just finished off the video for the service…..breathe out Mark!

About 20 hours of work into a 12 minute video. I did about 10 of those hours….the technical side. With such a big and sensitive family, its important to get a picture of everyone in it…..and to get the music and feel of it right.

I just got back from Pinnaroo funeral chapel making sure it is going to work. With all the issues with Codecs I have been having at church, I wanted to make sure there will be no problems with it. I have rendered it into 3 formats, just to make sure…….
I will put it online at some point for the family to be able to view if they cant get there on Friday.

Judd…..gorrn
Cousins…..gorrrn

Kerr….wants to be gorrrn.

Cant blame them really.
Worsfold has coached his side to the worst result ever. EVER.

West Coast have never had a worst season than 2008.

But of course…there is no pressure on the coach.

I think Worsfold is okay….I just cant stand the inequity in reporting. It grates me.

Wayne Carey was a marvelous footballer, he played for the Kangaroos Football Club and was involved in the greatest period of that clubs history when the team won two premierships.
Yet post football it would seem, despite his material success, his life has lurched from one off field drama to another. He was on Andrew Dentons show, enough rope and it was an incredible interview. The title of that show is very apt…enough rope…Andrew Denton gives the people being intereviewed enough rope…enough latitude that their own words, their own testimony if you like, is enough for the audience to decide for themselves what the sum of the persons life is.
Wayne Carey told the story of his father, a typical story for many young Australian males…distant, abusive, violent, interested in alcohol more that anything else.

But something he said really made me sorry for Wayne, it put a human face on what formerly may have just been a cariacature of a man.
He shared with Andrew Denton that his father had never watched him play football.Never. Not growing up through the young ranks, not playing under 18’s, not during his formative years at North Melbourne, and in fact not even at his sons grand final appearances….despite being offered tickets.
How would that make a son feel? A son..and a daughter for that matter, seeks, desires the approval, the recognition from the parent that at least in part is responsible for their being.
Is it a mystery why God calls Himself our Father…or is it obvious. We are made in His image, we are designed to reflect His personality, we are made for His glory. There is something deep within the Christian which desires to have our heavenly fathers approval.

6.30am Early morning prayer and share and infor meeting with other pastors

9am Fix coffee machine in time for Kids Jam

9.30am discuss music and items for Sunday service coming up

10am Polish off graphics for church celebration service, mastering photoshop is a steep learning curve, but I need to get it myself, doing half quality jobs is no good, and neither is having to rely on others who are busy….

11am Meeting with key leader in church, discussing and talking through the key values and culture of our church….and what is going on

12 noon to 4pm working through the stage setup for Angus Buchan crusade…working through budget and stage set up for about 1500 blokes…
(grab coffee and burger on way back to office)

4.30pm pre marriage wedding preparation for a couple from church

6pm Take communion to a dear old lady in hospital who may not have much time left….

7.30pm…tired……..