Celibate and Sane: Sleepy Sleepy Naughty Knee

November 5, 2010

Sleepy Sleepy Naughty Knee

That's a weird title for a blog entry isn't it? I'm writing this as I have a quick break at the radio station where I announce on the breakfast show.

For three days my knee has been playing up so much it's been impacting on my sleep, hence the strange title of this blog entry. Unfortunately I had such little sleep I had to take a couple of days off from announcing. I had to go back to using my walking stick again, which was rather frustrating because I thought after my surgery 6 months ago that everything was going to be ok. I guess not.

This morning I heard some fabulous news about the 2011 EasterFest in Toowoomba. More than 40,000 people from across Australia attend the Christian music festival each year at Easter and it continues to go from strength to strength. The fabulous news is that two groups are reforming just to play at EasterFest.

Petra in 1986 (Norway)
(author: Terje Rodland)

Petra, who started in 1972 and played classic Christian rock; and
Australia's Paul Colman Trio.

Each year, great headlining Christian artists and groups from across the world and Australia are heard at EasterFest. It's a fantastic weekend, worth the time and effort if you can make it. It's an enormous set up with usually a minimum of four events happening at the same time. Sometimes it's almost impossible to choose between which events to go to.

Jon Foreman & Chad Butler
of Switchfoot in Vancouver

Other confirmed Christian bands and artists include:

And it's still months away so lot's more yet to be confirmed!

Michael Paynter

Oh, Sleeper performing in
Jacksonville, USA earlier this year

Peter Furler

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Personal Quotes from Vicki-S

"Occasionally I find my breakfast a little bitter, and sometimes it's difficult to chew and swallow; though at other times it's sweet, but it’s very satisfying and always sustains me. My most important meal of the day, is feasting on God’s Word and drinking up His presence."

I love me, because God loves me. It's not that God doesn't see my flaws, they are like blazing torches in His eyes, but rather that He sees past my imperfections and still loves me. And who am I to argue with the perfect God that I am worthwhile, that I am worthy of love, and that He accepts me and wants me to be His child, His beloved daughter? When I understood this, I began to accept and embrace His version and His vision of me, and not the world's.

"The silent treatment and sulking are simply two other weapons in the arsenal of the manipulator."

"Often people use the metaphor of a butterfly emerging from its cocoon to describe how we can grow from difficult experiences, but what they don't mention is the fact that at first we start off as an ugly caterpillar."

"We so often just get caught up in trying to just get through each day, that we forget to pause and be thankful for the fresh one that is presented anew and untouched each morning."

"Contrary to what we might think, forgiveness isn't so much about healing our relationship with that other person, but about healing our own broken heart."

"The purpose of school reunions is to show off how much you've achieved in life, to laugh at the once popular kids who've aged more quickly than you; and to wince at the guy who was a bully in school and who aptly became a policeman."

"I've found in many organisations where volunteers are needed, including the modern-day church, that 80% of its people sit back and let everyone else do most of the work, then there's the 10% who actually make the place run, and the remaining 10% just like to whinge about the 10% doing the work, especially about how they could do it better."

"When traced back to its source, every sin, every despicable act, and every war was motivated by someone's selfishness."

"I do not want to think of man, for that would distract me from God. But if I focus on God, I cannot help but think of my fellow man, and each day God keeps the scales balanced so that I have enough within me to do both."

"Overcoming depression isn’t about changing ones attitude, or just ‘getting on’ with things, it’s like removing one’s personal black shroud one thread at a time, with ones teeth.”