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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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  21 January, 2014

  "A gentle disease" (said Bev) "What is?"  (I replied)  "Motor Neurone Disease." Now I had heard of MND being "cruel", "unrelenting" and so on; but never had I heard it described as a gentle disease. Maybe it had started to affect Bev's mind?  I asked her if she would explain how she could possibly describe it as "gentle".

  FROM BEV
  Listening to Mike's struggles over the last few weeks as I have continued to deteriorate, the word that has come to me about this disease is "gentle". Like Mike, I have had to contemplate this thought.

  "Gentle" is the way I see the changes that are happening to my body,  Gentle in the way the disease moves along almost as a back drop to life.   Nothing sudden like a heart attack; nothing as demanding as the upheaval  that comes with the diagnosis of cancer; nothing as devastating  as an accident.
  Just the small changes that, when added together over time, means a large change in our lifestyle.
  I am grateful for this gentleness.

  Do I associate gentleness with my God? A verse that has been special to me took on new meaning as I read it the other day.

  "Come unto me all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you. Let me teach you, because I am humble and gentle of heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy to bear and the burden I give you is light." (Matthew 11)

  For me, He is a gentle God who changes my heavy burdens to ones that are light and easy to bear.