WHAT DO YOU GIVE TO A KID FROM GOD?

1. Here is a nugget from the gold-rush days, it’s a beauty that my father found;
it looks a little green, but it’s gold inside, perhaps you could make a crown.

2. Here is a nice drop of vintage port
I collected on the Southern run;
I was saving it for some sorta special day, it’ll keep till you’re twenty one.

3. This here is the hide of a wallaby,
I tanned it through the winter days;
I know it smells a bit like tanning bark, but that’ll keep all the mossies away.

4. And this is a stone with secret signs;
for we who are the blacks know well
that you have the spirit of the crying tree
from the dreaming tracks you crossed, we can tell.

ALWS 5/10/23

To say I've been inactive on my website is a serious understatement! I've written nothing here since early 2021. 

So, does this mean the world has stopped for us, that nothing is happening?
A major event for us in 2022 was moving house in October. We had been in Modbury Heights since July 1993.Now we're back in Klemzig.

In May we travelled to the Mentawai Islands in Indonesia, seeing work supported by Australian Lutheran World Service. Dorothy and I are Ambassadors for the ALWS programme, Lives You Touch. We are encouraging people to leave money in their will for the work of ALWS. We committed to leave a third of our will many years ago and hope many others can touch lives in this way.
Since then we have visited Box Hill & Loxton with Jonathan & Julie Krause as part of the Asante presentations, promoting the cause of ALWS. Still to come this year are Asante events in Toowoomba & Rochedale (Nov 26 & 27) and Perth (Dec 10)

Looking forward to seeing many people on these occasions.