April 2009 – Page 3 – all said and done

Published April 9, 2009 by Rebecca Matheson

Something new

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Last night was the start of a spin off thing happening through Ranges. We don’t know really what it is, except that Les and Vubka (I know I’ve spelt that wrong), Bob, Tim, Cat, AJ (and Lily and Annabel), Geoff and I – not an exhaustive list for future reference as it’s rather open ended- met for dinner and had a good discussion on the Kingdom of God, church etc.

If injections were more positive things I’d equate it with that. It was good, whatever it was. And it was right. I came away hopeful.

Les very succinctly described our role in the Kingdom of God as not to ‘go build’ (Whatever the hell that’s meant to mean anyway) but rather as stewards. Taking it back to the Garden of Eden, where when ‘the fall’ occurred; there was a split in horizontal relationships between people, the land etc and we lost that perfect vertical relationship (with God) was affected. And this then are the areas we are stewards and the point being to draw things closer to that perfect vertical…. I have explained it terribly and I’m sure it’s not complete and I don’t know fully what it looks like, but it’s certainly not about a point of ‘salvation’ and a ‘go out and make converts’.

I like these people. I like what God is doing.

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Christianity Church Dog & Frog Life

Published April 7, 2009 by Rebecca Matheson

Fly away home

beetles A very interesting sojourn across Melbourne today with a first-ever visit to the Immigration Museum followed by the Melbourne Museum.

The Immigration museum on the whole is a bit dry, but I was very impressed and quite moved by the introductory area/video – a powerful reminder about migration and about how conflict, restrictions and poverty affect the world.

And then as the visit to the Immigration Museum was a bit flat for uni purposes (yes there were motives) I decided to face the new fangled Dinosaur walk seeing as the novel I’m reading at the moment has like-themes. So the Dinosaur walk (and the rest of the building) was over run with kids and not really that amazing because to be honest Dinosaurs aren’t really my thing… except for my very early intro to computers where the ‘build the dinosaur’ game was the coolest ever – I happened to turn around and there’s this wall covered in the most beautiful insects and I literally stopped dead.

I used to be obsessed with insects growing up in PNG (and in the Solomons, but to a lesser extent). I kept an Atlas moth in a soft-drink bottle (Who knows how) and made sure I payed it the courteous visit today. The patterns and collections and fascination with bugs at a younger age helps me understand a little of what I could call my aesthetic today – which sounds really pretentious so lets call it, my interest in design.

Insects are incredible, how did I ever fall out of love?

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Culture Life Uni

Published April 5, 2009 by Rebecca Matheson

23

As of yesterday I crossed the 22 line and have made it to the 23rd.

We’ve spent the weekend away for Geoff’s grandparents joint 80th bash (a whole weekend away with relatives)… but did manage to sneak out over lunch and have a lovely birthday one at the Aspy (or Aspire) cafe in Lancefield. It was uber trendy for a very country town and and a bookshop to match (in brilliantness) right next door. Some rather fine wine too I must say and an exceptional espresso trifle. Got some lovely presents. Geoff was very clever with one of his, a ‘voucher’ for something/s moo. Rather exciting!

Happy Birthday here also to my lovely twinables Laura. We have as usual not given each other a present on the day, I at least have hers sitting right here. Parents are off in the outback (literally) so it was all rather disjointed. At least I didn’t have to share a cake… hang on, I didn’t have one at all – erm trifle is better anyway. Have I mentioned my obession with trifle?

Life