A Beautiful Walk

I went for a beautiful walk yesterday. I went down by harbour drive and watched the small rows of pine trees across the water at Matakana. So calming. I just walked and soaked up the music on our MP3 player. This song was just what i wanted to sing but couldn't:


Take these shoes
Click clacking down some dead end street
Take these shoes
And make them fit
Take this shirtPolyester white trash made in nowhere
Take this shirt
And make it clean, clean
Take this soul
Stranded in some skin and bones
Take this soul
And make it sing

Yahweh, Yahweh
Always pain before a child is bornYahweh, Yahweh
Still I'm waiting for the dawn
Take these handsTeach them what to carry
Take these hands
Don't make a fist no
Take this mouthSo quick to criticise
Take this mouth
Give it a kiss



Take this soul, stranded in some skin and bone - so true eh? I really feel like that sometimes. Like I have this free, beautiful soul stranded and stuck in this mortal, sinful, tired body.

Had a nice day with Andrew. We went out for lunch and bought some treats. It was great. saw a really cool dark black antiquey lamp at Cabbages and Kings but it was $170 so i guess I'm gonna have to start saving :) It was neat to have that little treat and time out. As Ange was saying you cna sue the fact that you're home together all day (working) not to go and do anything, but you need that time just the same as anyone else.

Bought this funny as card too. It said something like "you're a beautiful human being, but I can't draw human beings very well so i drew a potato instead. Potatoes are beautiful too though and they are much easier to draw" ha ha I love it!

I miss debs but she is home soon - yay!!!! :)

Ange and I went down to the waterfront with a coffee, it was really nice and we went to the library which was also nice. Jamie's in tonight t's Weekend Sunw ith his music which is cool. Check out www.jamiestrange.com (when it's up and running).

Tonight will be a quite night with CSI, New Tricks, Murder in Surburbia and bed!

Oh and this Dutch guy turned up on our doorstep and just walked in and neither of us knew who he was or why he was there unti about five minutes into the convo! It was so funny. Andrew was tring to blunder his way through trying to find out who he was. After 20 mins we found out his name with Gary and just before that we found out he had just randomly come to visit after he asked God to lead him to the right people. Anyway it was AWESOME! He has this trust that is set up for "the least of these". I.e. Handicapped, terminally ill people. It's a minisry that no one else in NZ has that we know of. he raises money to go and help these poor people in Fiji, India, Tonga, Samoa, etc. he finds handicapped children who have been tied up with the pigs because there is no one to care for them and a guy who was left to rot on a mat because everyone was afraid of him. He tries his best to get them government assistance or he recruits someone to help those people, often with just simple things like Savlon, bandages and rice. Most people , he said, don't want to know about his little Trust called the DIPS'N Trust (Disabled Individuals, Personal Special Needs). Please if you can help with anything, email him at: garryoster@xtra.co.nz
I am going to be translating one if his cool little tracts into French.

Well take care world.


Anna :)