Australia Zoo

I have just been at Australia Zoo. And it was mega uber awesome fun!
Though I have discovered something, and I am quite glad to have come to this realisation:

Humans are more important than animals.

I do not deny the fact that animals are important and that we should look after them, however, I have decided within myself that humans are more important.
Now, I am not a people person. But I do know the worth of fellow human beings to my sanity, and to my joy and passion for life and for correcting and solidifying opinions.
I also want them to come to heaven with me. Otherwise heaven would be lonely. And who wants to spend eternity without other humans? God is sufficient, but people add to the wholeness of God. Each person on earth reveals a part of God. And we don't want missing pieces to miss out.
Animals on the other hand do not have spirits like we humans do. I love animals, and indeed we have been called to look after the flora and fauna while on the earth, but spending all of our money on saving animals, seems a bit ridiculous when put in the light of eternity, and other peoples lives!

While I was there, I bought a soft-toy Wombat, because I decided that wombats were one of my favourite Australian mammals. (this after seeing the poor thing get weighed!)

Then I realised that I just spent money on a soft toy that is not useful for well, anything really.
I could have bought a pen, or at least just a plan postcard which may or may not be used, and at least in the long run, be recyclable. But I didn't, because I am fickle, and wanted a really soft wombat toy. Though I am learning slowly that though I like to horde, and love getting souvenirs, it doesn't mean that they have to be useless things to sit on the mantle for eternity!
oh well! So that was my learnings from an amazing day at Australia Zoo. Thanks team, and God Bless you Irwin family for what you are doing for this planet!

Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano

So, a big volcano started to erupt in Iceland. What does it have to do with us, on the other side of the world.
EVERYTHING it appears.
It is similar to a world crisis of oil: because the ash from the [crazy named volcano] (and they wonder why Icelandic is the hardest language to learn in the world) has floated across the airspace in Europe, it has stopped the movement of hundreds of thousands of people wishing to get on airplanes. This will interrupt imports, business meetings, and will bring Europe almost to a pre-commercial flight time.
This affects us because, in New Zealand (not sure about Australia) we import a number of goods, and are not fully self sufficient. This also affects our exports (a large amount of our dollars comes from this) and the tourism industry of Europeans to NZ.
How long will this volcano continue to spew ash into the atmosphere? Only God knows that. How long will it take for the ash to subside so that flights will resume? Even longer than that.
What to do in the meantime? Pray for the volcano, pray for the people disrupted, and pray for those whose insurance won't cover their extended stays in other countries.
Lets just hope that it all will blow over soon.

Marsh Flies

are NINJAS

These are the local HORRIBLE flies that bite. Or sting. Or whatever, but they hurt.
Anyway, while sewing up the sumo suits for Easterfest (yes this is one of the awesome jobs for which I have been assigned to do), the sneakey Marsh fly (which flies in a silent manner, similar to the ways in which ninjas sneak up on people) and landed on my ankle. And then it bit me. Through my sock. It was not even a very easy location to get to at the time, but it wanted to get me around the ankle so it flew around the sumo suit sitting on top of me (I like to call him Blue because he has a blue jock strap thingo) and he got me. *sigh* well I survived atleast!
That is all.

Early Poem Sunday

Because I can:

THE CRESCENT

The crescent moon flies high,
Through the trees that surround me,
And seem to encompass me in darkness.

I live in light,
Despite the pitch black surrounds.
That moon shines down,
And makes shadows as in the day

When the clouds deny me the light,
I know that it is still there,
By the reflection it makes on those clouds
Which try to conceal the light,
And fail at it.

Copyright 2010 Joanna Wallace


Yeah, so there was a way awesome moon out tonight :)
I heart stars and moon. Also we had a work team come in today and they did lots of work on our new buildings. It was way awesome because it was supposed to rain today (due to a cyclone coming near) but it didn't rain! Thank you God!

POEM SUNDAY!!

WOW! I remembered poem sunday, Harrah!
This is one I wrote at the end of November last year. I totally got inspired by some of the awesome 'holy' poetry I was reading in my Poem a Day devotional.
SO here goes:

THE GREAT WALK

The first great walk,
The trip from Eden,
Where they saw the oil so red
Poured from the animal which now clothes them.
Now they stood upon a rock
Which caused that same liquid upon their own flesh
The same they are.

The last great walk,
The trip to Golgotha,
Where all saw the oil so red
Pour from the Son of God.
Now we stand upon that Rock
Which covers us in that same liquid
The same we are.

Copyright 2009, Joanna Wallace

THAT'S one of the best poems I have ever written. Can't guarantee other poem Sundays will be as good, but we shall see.
TALK to you later in the weekos!