Before we left Nelson to come to Christchurch for my five and a half weeks of daily radiation therapy, one of our dear friends, and an old friend of the Duncan family, gave me a notebook of daily verses she had selected and painstakingly written out for me to meditate on each day that I [...]
Since coming to Nelson two weeks ago, we have had no time to sit around navel-gazing. We had planned to settle in for a couple of weeks and plan the alterations we intend to make to the service areas of the house. Instead, the friend who is supervising and helping with the alterations came to [...]
The Bible talks about “labouring to enter into rest”. It’s not an easy task. We have this Hope of a time of rest and recuperation in Nelson, but to get to realise that Hope is hard work. Bronwen and I move to Nelson at the beginning of April and the removalist’s truck arrives on 30th [...]
The day after our sibling reunion one of our dear friends from Singapore, Pastor Patrick Low arrived with two of his elders and their wives. Their sole motivation in coming was to spend time with Bronwen and I and to take us ‘dining’, the #1 Singaporean pastime. We have known Patrick and Christian Community Chapel [...]
Last weekend (Waitangi Weekend Celebration) we enjoyed a wonderful time in Christchurch with siblings and spouses. We have been having this reunion on the same weekend for the past 4 years and this year was full of fun, talk, serious moments and eating. We went punting on the Avon River, rode the gondola to the [...]
After church recently a ‘spiritual’ lady, a visitor from out of town, knowing my situation, come to me to reassure that heaven is real – she’s been there – twice!! She told me that it is so green and clean (like NZ??) and pristine in beauty. She also visited the ‘throne-room’ which she said was [...]
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