Celebrate with us!One year ago this morning, by the grace of God, we had a doctor and nurse from Singapore fly into our little town to pick us up and get Kim, and Ethan, to good medical care in Perth. And so began our journey to the wide open space of Down Under.
Today, as we celebrated all that God did last year, we thought about how the joy we had last year in "the rescue", as Kim calls it, was a glimpse of the joy that is to come.
There is no joy like the joy of heaven,
for in that state are no sad divisions, unchristian quarrels, contentions, evil designs, weariness, hunger, cold, sadness, sin, suffering, persecutions, toils of duty.
O healthful place where none are sick!
O happy land where all are kings!
O holy assembly where all are priests!
How free a state where none are servants except to thee!
Bring me speedily to the land of joy.
from Joy
Valley of Vision, A Collection of Puritan Prayers and Devotions,
Arthur Bennett, ed.
Today, as we celebrated all that God did last year, we thought about how the joy we had last year in "the rescue", as Kim calls it, was a glimpse of the joy that is to come.
There is no joy like the joy of heaven,
for in that state are no sad divisions, unchristian quarrels, contentions, evil designs, weariness, hunger, cold, sadness, sin, suffering, persecutions, toils of duty.
O healthful place where none are sick!
O happy land where all are kings!
O holy assembly where all are priests!
How free a state where none are servants except to thee!
Bring me speedily to the land of joy.
from Joy
Valley of Vision, A Collection of Puritan Prayers and Devotions,
Arthur Bennett, ed.
