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Dust storm over Sydney @ University of New South Wales

Sydney’s cov­ered in a dust storm this morn­ing and everyone’s talk­ing about it. It’s pretty funky coloured and unprece­dented in recorded his­tory. Tori says Thank God in her new blog (at least, that’s the blog’s focus :)) — oth­ers say more amus­ing things. Here’s a sample.

““UFO?” — my brother, “no, dust storm” — me. He looked upset.”

“[name] proudly wel­comes you to Syd­ney Ranga Day. You can’t see us, but you know we’re out there.”

“[name] would hate to be hold­ing a cli­mate change deniers press con­fer­ence in Syd­ney today.”

“Appar­ently you shouldnt go out­side if u have asthma” [sic] — stat­ing the obvi­ous award

“[name] won­ders if, due to global warm­ing, jesus will return on a cloud of orange dust?”

“[name] is won­der­ing how he got inside a sepia photo?!”

“[name] wants it to rain so she can make a mud pie on her car”

Hey guys i had this big bag of red dust that i left out­side, but how [sic] can’t find it. Would any­one know where it is?”

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The view from TG office yesterday

Sunrise over Coogee @ TG HQ

Fri­day was a pretty insane day, but I snapped this photo (cam­er­a­phone, dunno what hap­pened top right!) arriv­ing at our office in the morn­ing before get­ting into it. We’ve got a pretty incred­i­ble view over Coogee, which is fan­tas­tic… except for when the sea and sky are such amaz­ing colours and you know there’s not a chance of actu­ally get­ting out­side to it!

There were some sheets of light rain and these incred­i­ble clouds that cleared off to per­fect skies and an ocean that even I, some­one who doesn’t par­tic­u­larly rate swim­ming and has never learnt to surf despite liv­ing within 5km of the coast his whole life, wished I was free to head over to.

It is good to give thanks to the Lord,
to sing praises to your name, O Most High;
to declare your stead­fast love in the morn­ing,
and your faith­ful­ness by night,
to the music of the lute and the harp,
to the melody of the lyre.
For you, O Lord, have made me glad by your work;
at the works of your hands I sing for joy.

Psalm 92

We were made to work even before sin entered the world, but I reckon work/time-outside-on-a-beautiful-day bal­ance would’ve been bet­ter then! For those trust Jesus, a future is com­ing where every day all are freed to give thanks to Him for­ever…  even those stuck in beige office towers!