Highlights

Ah! I know... I've been slack at writing and slack at returning emails but - like the tortoise and the hare - I'll get there in the end! If you're awaiting a reply, just give me another couple of days!!

Currently, we're drinking gross amounts of tea and coffee and solving the problems of the world from our little units here on campus - it's great fun! I'm enjoying my 'big bed' and my 'little unit' all over again and am attempting to chew through the learnings of out-training - so much to reflect on. I'm missing friendships from Christchurch yet am grateful to be back in a comfortable environment to get my thinking sorted - it makes all the difference to the end result!

I'm still trying to get my readings done and can I say not one of you offered to help there... slackers! My quote of the moment would have to be from Corrie Ten Boom's book Amazing Love - a great read if you have some spare time in your day.

We do not need a great faith, but faith in a great God

Hudson Taylor

And my highlight since being back - that's easy! Just yesterday, 3 and a half year old Hudson, after running up for a hug after such a long time away, put two little hands around my arm, leaned his head up against it for a bit, then (with Jen's gentle prodding to repeat what he had gone over to her to whisper in her ear just moments before) looked up at me and said, "You're beautiful Karen." Ah... the innocence of children!! Gotta love it and it made my day!