Introducing me and my blog:

Hello and welcome to my blog. Thanks a lot for checking it out, I appreciate that.

Well let's start with an introduction. I'm going to paste in here an introduction of me that I wrote and send to people who are new friends or want to know more about me. I'm on some penpal sites and I found this was easier than answering the same questions over and over. So, here we go!

Hi I'm Rishie. I am 38 years old and i live in a small town in the mountains of northern New South Wales Australia. I live here with my best friends Maria and Joe and all our animals. I have a Chihuahua called Speedy and a cat called Crookshanks but we have other dogs, horses and birds here as well.   I am almost totally blind from birth and I use a programme that speaks the words on the screen and the words I type, that is how I am able to use the computer. I have a programme like that for my phone as well. I am unemployed due to start a computer course sometime soon, but until then I spend a lot of time at home with my friends.

I was born in Auckland New Zealand but I moved to Australia with my family when I was a child. I lived in Sydney many years before I moved up here with Maria and Joe in 1996. I love living here it's so peaceful. We live a few km outside of town on a small property. I hardly ever hear a car go by because the house is set back away from the road.

  I will tell you about my family. My father worked for an oil company for 29 years, he died the year he was going to retire. My Mum is a Nursing Unit Manager in a big hospital in Sydney. I have one brother who is 6 years younger than me, he is a lawyer and his wife is too.  They have 2 children Imogen [4] and Lana [2] and live in Sydney about 45 minutes drive from where Mum lives.

As for my personality, I'm very shy and quiet. People say of me that I don't talk enough. I am a good listener though. I'm a Christian and my faith is the most important thing in my life. I try to live as the bible teaches but of course I fail sometimes, i can be a bit impatient and short tempered though I am working on that. I am also too lazy and that's something I need to work on. I'm open about what I believe and I'll tell anyone who wants to know about my Lord Jesus and what he has done for me! If anyone wants to talk to me about God  I'm very pleased to tell them whatever I can but if they are plainly not interested I don't push them, I will just pray for them..

about my hobbies, I love to sing, read, write, do crafts, play piano and guitar a little, chat on skype, msn, yahoo or twitter and do email. my friend has an internet radio station at
www.powerradio104.com
and I have a show on there called Kiwi's place. My friend Maria and I do another show, a Christian music show called Power Praise, as well.
I'm an avid reader and I enjoy reading romances, historical fiction and books about other countries and places. I also enjoy Christian fiction such as books from Francine Rivers, Janette Oke, Laurie Wick and the very cool "left behind" series. I'm not much into mysteries but I do enjoy the brother Cadfael chronicles written by Ellis Peters. I also enjoy some  junior fiction such as the tomorrow series, Harry Potter, the writings of Lucy Maud Montgomery, the chronicles of Narnia and stuff like that. I also love the Lord of the Rings books. I enjoy reading fanfiction. As for music I like a lot, here are some of my favourite artists some you may not know: Hayley Westenra, Dame Kiri Te Kanaawa, Charlotte Church, Marina Prior, Andrea Bocelli, Eddy Low, Sir Howard Morrison, Emma Kirkby, Barbara Bonney, Barbara Streisand, Celine Dion, Gloria Estefan, John Farnham, Michael Crawford and many others. I don't like a lot of the modern music, I don't like rap or heavy metal or hiphop and I'm not much into Jazz either. 

I  think  that physical appearance is not important in getting to know someone because beauty fades but the inner character and personality remains, but for those who want to know I am 4 feet 9 inches, I have longish dark brown hair and brown eyes. I have a fair complexion. I am a little overweight but not too much.

Now about my blog and what I'm going to do with it. I was recently on holiday in New Zealand and I talked to God about the devotionals and other Christian stuff that is just sitting on my hard drive. I usually send things I write to  some email lists but after that the files just stay in my computer. The Lord put in my mind to start a Christian blog and post all my Christian writing there. So, that's what I'm doing.

I write devotionals and poetry mostly. I write simple, basic devotionals for the Christian radio show that my friend and I do together and I have written some more detailed ones when I was exploring a topic and decided to share  what I found out about it. I love details and I enjoy going back to the original languages at times, to better understand the meaning of a word or bible verse.

I've been writing poetry for years and years, ever since school days. Most of my poems have been lost over the years, due to hard drive crashes and things being lost during moves, but I have a few poems and I'm writing more so I'll put them here and if my hard drive crashes again at least I won't lose them this time.

I sometimes have the privilege of teaching at an online Church group that meets every week and I will be sharing those messages here as well. Let me hasten to explain that I am by no means a theologian, I am not a bible college graduate or student though i am doing an online  bible course. I just like to share the things the Lord has been teaching me. I encourage you that when you read my devotionals and stuff, or any Christian writing really, you should check the bible references and if something I or someone else says doesn't line up with what God says in his word then please disregard what I or they said and pay attention to what God is saying to you. Also if you disagree with me on some point, feel free to write to me about it and we can discuss it but please don't flame me ok.

I will post my testimony on here one of these days but in brief, I went to a school for the blind in Sydney for my primary education. The school is  a Catholic one and my parents were told to send me there so they did even though we aren't catholic. It was there I learned about Jesus, that he is God's son and that if we ask him into our hearts he will be our best friend and will never leave us. I felt that I needed a best friend like that so when I was 8 years old I gave my life to the Lord. After my Dad died in 2006 i strayed away from the Lord a bit, I was still a Christian and a believer but I didn't walk close to the Lord in those years, I was angry at him and kept my distance. I got caught up in sin and strayed further and then one day God got my attention, and since then I haven't looked back. I give all thanks to god for his mercy and patience with me!  since then, praise god, I've stayed closer to God and seen some growth in my Christian life.

Ok i think that's enough information for now. if you like you can email me at:
Rishie@dodo.com.au
to talk about anything I've written or just say hi. Also, I love to pray for people so if you have a prayer request and want another person to agree in prayer with you, send your prayer request to me.

god bless you all, have a nice day and thanks for reading this.