It is coming into winter Down Here and while we have just had one of the best summers ever, the weather has turned quite cold quite suddenly.

This being so, but not the whole reason at all, this Kiwi is looking forward to warming up a little in the Northern Hemisphere for a number of weeks. That will mean an absence of entries to Judah’s Journal for just a little while. It does not mean that Judah’s Journal has been abandoned and gone down the gurgler… no, not at all.

But in the meantime there is still plenty at this website for those who are interested in the same kind of things that interest myself. Check out the Archives if you have not done so already, the Categories and Links on the navigational side-bar to the left, and the little link buttons right at the very bottom of this page.

And just for now I leave you with the encouraging words of the little poem by the late Mother Theresa, probably the most popular item searched for on this site.

People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, People may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies;
Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.

What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
Build anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
Be happy anyway.

The good you do today, People will often forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough
Give the world the best you’ve got anyway.

You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway.