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• THE JOURNEY IS OVER (JOURNAL 90)

  3 June, 2016

  If you were to read our journal entry for this day last year, you would read the following Today's instalment… [more]

• JOURNAL 89

  22 May, 2016

  Hi sweetheart, Sometimes I experience periods of “What if…?”. These are times when my mind seems… [more]

• JOURNAL 88

  17 May, 2016

  Hi Darling, Coming home from the hospital with a mechanical device fitted to my chest – a P.E.G. I think it… [more]

• JOURNAL 87

  13 May, 2016

  JOURNAL 87 The doctor said I can go home this morning. The surgery has had the desired effect and this new means of… [more]

• JOURNAL 86

  10 May, 2016

  JOURNAL 86 MOTHER’S DAY Hello sweetheart, I haven’t spoken to our children as to… [more]

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• Our Journey Through The Valley (47)

  13 October, 2013

  So far as our journey is concerned, this past week has been less than encouraging. We have both become aware that the rate at which the disease takes hold seems to have increased quite noticeably. It's well within the truth boundaries to say that Bev is no longer able to walk. She would want to add "without assistance" (referring to her walker and manual wheelchair) but the basic statement stands true. Bev is no longer able to walk.

  Not surprisingly, this decrease in mobility is accompanied by an increase in weakness in her body generally - her legs, of course - but she has commented about weakness in her arms.

  One might reasonably expect the physical factors to produce negative emotional responses. If so, one's expectations would be go unmet - certainly that's true at this point in time. In saying that, I'm not suggesting that there have not been times when the reality of what is happening hasn't produced tears.  But overall Bev continues to be an inspiration to many, many people.

  I'm privileged to be one of them.

  We have come to the point on this journey where we now need to actively pursue the various support systems that are made available through Government agencies.

  Of course, the greatest support agency of all is our biological family and the wider family network that we call "the Church"- fellow believers from so many places in our history. How we thank God for one and all.

  We add this note to our journal with the hope that it might re-energize your prayer for us. There is a sense of vulnerability that surrounds us at the moment so your continuing prayer involvement is so vitally important.