Time
flies when you're having fun...
Corne
worked for a week with the World Horizons Youth Development Team on their
annual Stewards Trust camp.
(Stewards
trust is a Christian charity devoted to discipling young people, families and
older people, through camps and house parties)
I
was a mini bus driver for them for the week, driving them to various outdoor
activities around the Gower and also leading them on a overnight mountain
expedition in the Brecon mountains.
They
were a fantastic group to work with and we believe God had done great things in
the kids and the leader's lives.
I
praise God for safety on the roads driving the kids and also for a fun filled
refreshing week(being away from house and mummy duties).
Annelie has recently turned 18 months old.
I love ....
- how excited she is to see me in the morning when I
first walk into her room, how she jumps up and down in her cot with joy!
- how she loves the porridge that I make her each
morning, that she has a good appetite!
- that she cannot wait to get outside and will walk me to
the door in the morning as I leave for work wanting to come outside too!
- that she giggles at my funny dances and funny faces,
that she finds me funny!
- that she has TinTin teddy and she knows it as daddy
teddy because it looks like me!
- that I can stick her out over a ledge to feel the rush
of the wind, and she loves it!
- that we go to the beach to build a house out of
driftwood, and she will just sit there as I build the playhouse around her,
watching and waiting for daddy to join her when he is finished
- that she loves the big orange Land Rovers! How she runs to them in the car park, to
stand in the drivers seat, pretending to drive and beeping the horn!
- that she trusts me, that my being present gives her
confidence!
- how she coped with the rough travel conditions and 45c
heat in Iraq, I know I can push her yet further!
- that she is happy to be picked up and cuddled by anyone
around the world!
- that she just legs it outside as soon as the front door
is opened or as soon as we let her go, I love her desire to go, explore &
discover!
- that she is cuddly & will walk over to me to
embrace me when I come home
- how she loves the water, loves to splash and swim and
put her head in the water
- how she loves her bed and reaches for it as we enter
her bedroom at night
1 John 3:1 (NIV)
How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that
we should be called children of God!
Annelie and Daddy
