My what a hopeless, helpless lot we are today. Doom and gloom seems to be the order of the day. Cheer up the sun is still in the sky even if it is above the clouds. Give thanks for what we have and stop looking back for you may turn into a pillow of feathers, get a vision and set sail for the future awaits and it shall be what we make it. encourage one another and stop being losers whinging about what might have been for life is what you make it and we can make it. Joy is our strength, murmuring only destroys our soul and saps our strength. This is the land intrusted to us, to look after. We have all gone to sleep on the job because life has been good for the last 60 years and we have gone soft.
God is Spirit and we are flesh so the garden is in our hands. When I need a lift I take a stroll in my sisters garden and smell the roses and again I find peace and joy and the courage to conquer new territory, the future. Keep up your end and we will make it. love, joy, and, peace, is the way. United we stand. Love never fails, joy is our strength, peace brings health. Have a good day for our future is in our hands and we get what we need for today is all we have.

Oh dear, Richie 10

>>Cheer up the sun is still in the sky even if it is above the clouds. Give thanks for what we have...<< etc. etc. ad naus

A dog's breakfast of clichés.

Just the way to start a Saturday.

Otokonoko

You are the most reasonable voice here. Apologies for being a bit harsh on you in Runner's nasty little thread on "sleeping to the top".

Your interpretation of the events of the change in leadership by the Labor party fits with my understanding. Had not Gillard accepted, the party would've been leaderless prior to a federal election, Lindsay Tanner having already made his mind up to leave. Julia Gillard was next in line, had the support and took up the position offered to her.

What this has to do with "doom and gloom" (thanks Richie), "end of politics" Sellick rant, is beyond my understanding. Are the very gates of hell about to burst open with heinous red-eyed demons because an atheist (first to admit it) is our political leader? No wait, Sells claims that the god Julia doesn't believe in is the same as the one he doesn't believe in. Clever piece of sophistry. Or is Sellick hinting that he is a Buddhist - religion without supreme deity?

Many politicians claim to be religious, few actually behave as if they are. Julia has offered one of the most honest expressions of her personal ideology of any political figure in recent history. This does give, as Otokonoko noted, Julia the opportunity to be an impartial observer.

BTW why is Runner so threatened? The pure of heart have nothing to fear.

stop looking back,
Richie 19,
that's precisely what the ALP supporters are doing. Hence they seem unperturbed at the future prospects under a Government which traditionally fails the country.

The pure of heart have nothing to fear.
Severin,
Am I to understand that those who tolerate & support proven mis-managers are pure of heart ?

Some chose the left some chose the right but narrow is the way that leads to life and very few find the way. The world has changed and we see the political dogs fighting over the crumbs. The Lord is my shepherd: I shall not want. He makes me to lie down in green pastures:
He leads me beside the still waters. He restores my soul: He leads me in the paths of righteousness for His name's sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: your rod and your stalf, they comfort me. You prepare a table in the presence of my enemies: You anoint my head with oil; My cup runs over.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; and
I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
More cliches for your dogs Saturday break fast.