In 5 weeks time Thea and I will be spending our last night in London. I can't believe how fast everything has gone. The first month or two went really slowly, but the past few months have flown! It's been a whole month since I was in Italy with G and D, but it seems like only last week.
The blogging has been slack recently. I know. I'm sorry, but as life in London becomes more then norm, there seems less and less things worthy to blog about. The point of this particular blog was to report back on our adventures, not blog for the sake of blogging. Having said that, this is post number 79, and it would be nice to get to 100 before we leave. So, with that goal in mind, the rate-o-bogging will be picking up to approximately 4 posts a week!
I have no idea what I'll be writing about in the next 21 posts, so I apologise in advance if I write less about adventures and more about my random thoughts (as if the world cares). Any ideas?
Anyway, here's a photo I found on my computer recently. It's of my sister Shelley and my Nan. Nan has been sick for a good 10 years now, but has been particularly suffering over the past few years. A couple of years ago Nan became a Christian after many many decades of my Mum and her sister Joyce living as salt and light to her. People may question why the elderly suffer, but in Nan's case it is now obvious God was being patient and gracious and waiting for the perfect time to bring her into His family.
Nan's suffering finally ended last Friday when she died. It makes me happy to think of Nan being given a new body, after the earthly one she's had has given her so much grief over the past decade. I'll miss Nan, but I find it difficult to be overly sad when I think of how happy she is now and how upset she's been previously. I can't help but smile when I think of how Nan must feel to be able to walk without severe pain in her legs, or not have to take dozens of tablets every morning to stay alive, half of which were to counter the side effects of the others, or to simply just be able to sit back and be comfortable. What an awesome God we have that He lavishes these gifts on Nan for no other reason than He loves her. Nothing in her hand she brung - simply to His cross she clung :)
The blogging has been slack recently. I know. I'm sorry, but as life in London becomes more then norm, there seems less and less things worthy to blog about. The point of this particular blog was to report back on our adventures, not blog for the sake of blogging. Having said that, this is post number 79, and it would be nice to get to 100 before we leave. So, with that goal in mind, the rate-o-bogging will be picking up to approximately 4 posts a week!
I have no idea what I'll be writing about in the next 21 posts, so I apologise in advance if I write less about adventures and more about my random thoughts (as if the world cares). Any ideas?
Anyway, here's a photo I found on my computer recently. It's of my sister Shelley and my Nan. Nan has been sick for a good 10 years now, but has been particularly suffering over the past few years. A couple of years ago Nan became a Christian after many many decades of my Mum and her sister Joyce living as salt and light to her. People may question why the elderly suffer, but in Nan's case it is now obvious God was being patient and gracious and waiting for the perfect time to bring her into His family.
Nan's suffering finally ended last Friday when she died. It makes me happy to think of Nan being given a new body, after the earthly one she's had has given her so much grief over the past decade. I'll miss Nan, but I find it difficult to be overly sad when I think of how happy she is now and how upset she's been previously. I can't help but smile when I think of how Nan must feel to be able to walk without severe pain in her legs, or not have to take dozens of tablets every morning to stay alive, half of which were to counter the side effects of the others, or to simply just be able to sit back and be comfortable. What an awesome God we have that He lavishes these gifts on Nan for no other reason than He loves her. Nothing in her hand she brung - simply to His cross she clung :)
4 comments:
Great post mate. Praise God for his work in the life of your family! I'm encouraged.
Looking forward to the final 21!
Thanks mate.
God's got it worked out ay? And He's so merciful in big and little ways.
some post ideas: what's bark made of, top 10 things you're looking forward to about Home (thats potentially 2 posts if u both do one!), cats v dogs (pfft no question really - but who would win in a game of scrabble?), things you'll miss from Life in Londontown, A Study of the Effects of Cold Climate on the Neurological Activity Level of Antipodeans, words that rhyme with Cory, List of people you've met from all over the world, Words You've Written in Pee in the Snow, Most Faithful Blog Commenters (hemhem - oh! excuse me.), "Movie Marathons: A Dying Leisure Activity?", Father Abraham's family tree ;) , strange messages from Thea overseas, Aussie things that Londoners should adopt, Pommy things that Aussies should adopt, Beer" warm or cold?"....
Love the suggestions Jess!
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