<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35950919</id><updated>2011-12-29T09:40:30.009+11:00</updated><category term='future'/><category term='leaving'/><category term='child prostitutes'/><category term='wedding'/><category term='social justice'/><category term='door of hope'/><category term='god'/><category term='poetry'/><category term='safe'/><category term='marriage'/><category term='life lessons'/><category term='writing'/><category term='compassion'/><category term='love'/><category term='child soldiers'/><category term='life'/><title type='text'>random jack's place</title><subtitle type='html'>musings on the edge of change</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://randomjacksplace.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35950919/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://randomjacksplace.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Chantale</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18147534914670185368</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HI1Ahlj2Xms/TYiBazh7OQI/AAAAAAAAAA0/Ctmi3yOtjro/s220/IMG_0391.JPG'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>8</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35950919.post-3277534469134033975</id><published>2011-03-22T21:41:00.002+11:00</published><updated>2011-03-22T21:51:42.366+11:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='life lessons'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='god'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='love'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='future'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='writing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='marriage'/><title type='text'>a penny for my thoughts</title><summary type='text'>so 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: hard</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://randomjacksplace.blogspot.com/feeds/3277534469134033975/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=35950919&amp;postID=3277534469134033975&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35950919/posts/default/3277534469134033975'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35950919/posts/default/3277534469134033975'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://randomjacksplace.blogspot.com/2011/03/penny-for-my-thoughts.html' title='a penny for my thoughts'/><author><name>Chantale</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18147534914670185368</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HI1Ahlj2Xms/TYiBazh7OQI/AAAAAAAAAA0/Ctmi3yOtjro/s220/IMG_0391.JPG'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35950919.post-4113103348728058917</id><published>2007-10-05T23:32:00.001+10:00</published><updated>2011-03-22T21:19:32.001+11:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='life'/><title type='text'>square peg in a round hole</title><summary type='text'>//05OCT07/23:07/LOUNGE*ROOM//
//MOOD: REFLECTIVE//

just a pilgrim &amp; a sojourner here; 
from a kingdom far &amp; yet, so near.
&amp; a stay as brief as candle light;
until the rising son &amp; 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 be? a fire lit, </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://randomjacksplace.blogspot.com/feeds/4113103348728058917/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=35950919&amp;postID=4113103348728058917&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35950919/posts/default/4113103348728058917'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35950919/posts/default/4113103348728058917'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://randomjacksplace.blogspot.com/2007/10/square-peg-in-round-hole.html' title='square peg in a round hole'/><author><name>Chantale</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18147534914670185368</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HI1Ahlj2Xms/TYiBazh7OQI/AAAAAAAAAA0/Ctmi3yOtjro/s220/IMG_0391.JPG'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35950919.post-8221793173010226534</id><published>2007-03-08T23:20:00.001+11:00</published><updated>2011-03-22T21:20:29.114+11:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='child prostitutes'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='child soldiers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='compassion'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='social justice'/><title type='text'>justice isn't just for the birds</title><summary type='text'>//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...

&amp; 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'm a </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://randomjacksplace.blogspot.com/feeds/8221793173010226534/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=35950919&amp;postID=8221793173010226534&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35950919/posts/default/8221793173010226534'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35950919/posts/default/8221793173010226534'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://randomjacksplace.blogspot.com/2007/03/moodinspired-to-make-difference.html' title='justice isn&apos;t just for the birds'/><author><name>Chantale</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18147534914670185368</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HI1Ahlj2Xms/TYiBazh7OQI/AAAAAAAAAA0/Ctmi3yOtjro/s220/IMG_0391.JPG'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35950919.post-5368095499389589863</id><published>2007-01-21T12:43:00.002+11:00</published><updated>2011-03-22T21:25:27.466+11:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='life'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='leaving'/><title type='text'>leaving is the only way home</title><summary type='text'>I 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 </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://randomjacksplace.blogspot.com/feeds/5368095499389589863/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=35950919&amp;postID=5368095499389589863&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35950919/posts/default/5368095499389589863'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35950919/posts/default/5368095499389589863'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://randomjacksplace.blogspot.com/2007/01/leaving-is-only-way-home.html' title='leaving is the only way home'/><author><name>Chantale</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18147534914670185368</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HI1Ahlj2Xms/TYiBazh7OQI/AAAAAAAAAA0/Ctmi3yOtjro/s220/IMG_0391.JPG'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35950919.post-7480076857576778523</id><published>2006-10-24T21:52:00.000+10:00</published><updated>2006-10-24T22:09:20.203+10:00</updated><title type='text'>be honest...or stay quiet</title><summary type='text'>//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. big</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://randomjacksplace.blogspot.com/feeds/7480076857576778523/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=35950919&amp;postID=7480076857576778523&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35950919/posts/default/7480076857576778523'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35950919/posts/default/7480076857576778523'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://randomjacksplace.blogspot.com/2006/10/be-honestor-stay-quiet.html' title='be honest...or stay quiet'/><author><name>Chantale</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18147534914670185368</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HI1Ahlj2Xms/TYiBazh7OQI/AAAAAAAAAA0/Ctmi3yOtjro/s220/IMG_0391.JPG'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35950919.post-6265750794876004184</id><published>2006-10-14T10:25:00.001+10:00</published><updated>2011-03-22T21:23:01.536+11:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='wedding'/><title type='text'>wedding dreaming</title><summary type='text'>MOOD/KINDA TIRED//
NOISE/BROOKE FRASER &amp; THE CLUNKING FAN//

i just woke up from one of the whackiest dreams i've had in a while - &amp; 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...&amp; my fiance and i were on the run [someone is always chasing me in my dreams] </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://randomjacksplace.blogspot.com/feeds/6265750794876004184/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=35950919&amp;postID=6265750794876004184&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35950919/posts/default/6265750794876004184'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35950919/posts/default/6265750794876004184'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://randomjacksplace.blogspot.com/2006/10/wedding-dreaming.html' title='wedding dreaming'/><author><name>Chantale</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18147534914670185368</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HI1Ahlj2Xms/TYiBazh7OQI/AAAAAAAAAA0/Ctmi3yOtjro/s220/IMG_0391.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35950919.post-3466521557193903861</id><published>2006-10-13T19:43:00.000+10:00</published><updated>2006-10-14T01:27:08.131+10:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='door of hope'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='safe'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poetry'/><title type='text'>a blog needs a purpose</title><summary type='text'>i 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 </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://randomjacksplace.blogspot.com/feeds/3466521557193903861/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=35950919&amp;postID=3466521557193903861&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35950919/posts/default/3466521557193903861'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35950919/posts/default/3466521557193903861'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://randomjacksplace.blogspot.com/2006/10/blog-needs-purpose.html' title='a blog needs a purpose'/><author><name>Chantale</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18147534914670185368</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HI1Ahlj2Xms/TYiBazh7OQI/AAAAAAAAAA0/Ctmi3yOtjro/s220/IMG_0391.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35950919.post-116072658332202718</id><published>2006-10-13T17:59:00.000+10:00</published><updated>2006-10-13T18:06:32.174+10:00</updated><title type='text'>opening thoughts</title><summary type='text'>mood/tired//noise/fan cranking &amp; 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 this is </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://randomjacksplace.blogspot.com/feeds/116072658332202718/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=35950919&amp;postID=116072658332202718&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35950919/posts/default/116072658332202718'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35950919/posts/default/116072658332202718'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://randomjacksplace.blogspot.com/2006/10/opening-thoughts.html' title='opening thoughts'/><author><name>Chantale</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18147534914670185368</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HI1Ahlj2Xms/TYiBazh7OQI/AAAAAAAAAA0/Ctmi3yOtjro/s220/IMG_0391.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
