Just a quick one

I just wanted to say thanks everyone for your loving concern, thoughts and prayers over the last little while. We're getting there... gradually my energy levels are increasing and I'm feeling more normal. Also on Friday we had good news after Alastair's dad's appointment with his specialist: he's been given the all-clear, the pathology results were fine! Apparently this specialist has never seen anything like what Peter had and said he's a very lucky man. It's clear that it was a load on Peter's shoulders, as he's much more chirpy now, which is good to see. :)

Alastair shared this article by Tim Challies with me earlier, and I thought it was really insightful. I look forward to the day when I can demonstrate what I consider to be "real" hospitality (the kind I would be able to show if I had my own house, with more than two rooms in it!)... but it's been a good thing to think about even in our granny flat situation. :)

http://www.challies.com/christian-living/inconvenienced-by-inconvenience?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

And lastly I just want to share a couple of Puritan prayers I came across the other day:

Unmask to me sin's deformity,
   that I may hate it, abhor it, flee from it...
Let me never forget that the heinousness of sin
   lies not so much in the nature of the sin committed, 
      as in the greatness of the person sinned against.

Grant me never to lose sight of
   the exceeding sinfulness of sin,
   the exceeding righteousness of salvation
   the exceeding glory of Christ,
   the exceeding beauty of holiness,
   the exceeding wonder of grace.