If you look back at our blogging history you would know that we (or rather I) am not good at maintaining a written blog! As I read other blogger's I can see that the concept of writing regularly is a great ambition but so many things push in and writing a column easily becomes the casualty! It is not as if life is anywhere near as busy as it was in our past but we just don't get to it! However today we make a start again! My intention of keeping this was of letting others know both what we are doing and some of the things that Father is bringing to my thinking.
Somebody I mentioned this rejuvenation of "blogging life" to, gave me a half grin and said, "Well nobody reads the blog anyway so save your time and energy and just pull the pin on the whole idea". However the pin is not pulled because we sense the discipline of writing helps us live with a little more transparency than otherwise may be the case.
Much has happened over the last 8 months or so. After returning from a time with brothers and sisters in Ireland where we enjoyed both encouraging the saints there and being encouraged by them. A few weeks home and then in December, I left for a two week sojourn in New Zealand.
It was a great joy to spend some time with Jack Gray, a brother who has been a faithful servant of God as a surgeon, a GP and a thoroughly lovely man. Jack now still has a ministry to many through the web site, thepilgrimpath.co.nz. This site shares the depth of Jack's great love for Jesus with many around the world. There are many people who correspond with Jack!
It was a joy to spend a weekend with Jan and John McGoran and attend a camp they had coordinated where people from all around New Zealand gathered for a few days together. Just another place where people who had sensed God leading them out of the traditions of their past to enjoy the freedom of living a day at a time where He led them.
Val and I thoroughly enjoyed the visit from Colm and Cloida Morris from Ireland in January. Their visit in mid January was an encouragement to all who met them. They left just in time to avoid the turmoil of the "Black Saturday" bushfire in Victoria!
While we were in Ireland last year Colin and Joyce Langran asked us to consider traveling to South Africa with them this year. So in March Val and I left to spend some time with brothers and sisters in South Africa! Again for a month we enjoyed fellowship with a varied group of people walking in relation to the Lord in very practical ways. We had time to meet folk in Johannesburg and a bunch of folk walking the same way in Ladysmith some 4 hours drive away. We were amazed at the beauty of the geography with the vast array of animals we had never encountered before and the unique beauty of the people we met there.
We spent many hours talking and sharing the good things that Father was doing in the lives of His people in every corner of the globe. Our conversation seemed guided and enabled and centered around the delight of the presence of Jesus in every part of our lives.
When we flew towards home, our Irish friends departed for Dublin while Val flew home to Australia and Kevin flew to Chennai, India to meet Neil Buckman from Sydney and enjoyed just under two weeks with another bunch of God's people in the heat of South India.
Again it was wonderful to be with people with different histories and cultures but all who were enjoying the radical experience of living in close relationship with God.
It's an amazing privilege to have opportunity to share with folk in different places on the face of the earth and find the excitement of God leading his people to walk in his ways and enjoy relationship with him and the danger of trusting their lives in his hands. What else is there to do?
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