tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-359509192024-02-20T16:25:22.933+11:00random jack's placemusings on the edge of changeChantalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18147534914670185368noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35950919.post-32775344691340339752011-03-22T21:41:00.002+11:002011-03-22T21:51:42.366+11:00a penny for my thoughtsso looking at this blog i noticed i haven't written on here in over 4yrs! wow! that time has gone so quick! last time i blogged i was 6mths away from being married, looking to move to hong kong and both excited and terrified about what the future held. as they say, life does not always turn out the way you plan!
i got married to the most wonderful man in the world, had an interesting [read: hardChantalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18147534914670185368noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35950919.post-41131033487280589172007-10-05T23:32:00.001+10:002011-03-22T21:19:32.001+11:00square peg in a round hole//05OCT07/23:07/LOUNGE*ROOM//
//MOOD: REFLECTIVE//
just a pilgrim & a sojourner here;
from a kingdom far & yet, so near.
& a stay as brief as candle light;
until the rising son & morning bright -
will show a different way to walk.
so it’s encounterfest once again. and judah smith is here preaching again. challenging – again. and I wonder, is this the way it’s always going to beChantalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18147534914670185368noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35950919.post-82217931730102265342007-03-08T23:20:00.001+11:002011-03-22T21:20:29.114+11:00justice isn't just for the birds//mood/inspired to make a difference//
//noise/refrigerator hum//
i've been challenged again today by the fact that we in the west do far too little to alleviate the suffering in the world around us. I do far too little...
& if that last line annoys you so much you want to click to another page, do me a favour, restrain your mouse finger for just a minute and read the rest of the post.
i'mChantalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18147534914670185368noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35950919.post-53680954993895898632007-01-21T12:43:00.002+11:002011-03-22T21:25:27.466+11:00leaving is the only way homeI want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago, because a mind was made to figure things out, not to read the same page recurrently...
I want to repeat one word for you: Leave...Everything will still be here when you get back. It is you who will have changed.
- Donald Miller, Through Painted Deserts, p.x,xii -
the heat today is oppressive. it lays on you like a Chantalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18147534914670185368noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35950919.post-74800768575767785232006-10-24T21:52:00.000+10:002006-10-24T22:09:20.203+10:00be honest...or stay quiet//MOOD/PENSIVE//NOISE/ROVE LIVE//as i was driving yesterday, i was thinking about this blog, what i wanted to write, what i wanted to say...and i found myself censoring in my head what i would put on this blog.my reason? because people i know would read this blog. people i love, people i respect, people who's good opinion i would like to preserve... and then i realised that that reason sucks. bigChantalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18147534914670185368noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35950919.post-62657507948760041842006-10-14T10:25:00.001+10:002011-03-22T21:23:01.536+11:00wedding dreamingMOOD/KINDA TIRED//
NOISE/BROOKE FRASER & THE CLUNKING FAN//
i just woke up from one of the whackiest dreams i've had in a while - & lately, i've been having some pretty whacky ones, let me tell you.
the dream was set as far as i can tell in the colonial era - think convict australia or pirates of the caribbean...& my fiance and i were on the run [someone is always chasing me in my Chantalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18147534914670185368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35950919.post-34665215571939038612006-10-13T19:43:00.000+10:002006-10-14T01:27:08.131+10:00a blog needs a purposei was just thinking that a blog needs a purpose really, even if that purpose is to be the stomping ground of all things random!so to that end, i've decided that i'll use the halls of my part of blogdom to chart my journey as i do the S.A.F.E. course at my church [hillsong church], and prepare to get married [to my hot, spunky hong kong boy].for those of you not in the know, the safe course that Chantalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18147534914670185368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35950919.post-1160726583322027182006-10-13T17:59:00.000+10:002006-10-13T18:06:32.174+10:00opening thoughtsmood/tired//noise/fan cranking & blurred traffic noise//ok. well, new blog. haven't done this in a long while.i'm in hong kong at the moment, but was sick today [is there many things worse than being sick on holiday?], so instead of going out with my fiance i slept, and surfed the net. i found my old blog and decided i wanted to move on from that one and move house to some where new - so thisChantalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18147534914670185368noreply@blogger.com0