The West Australian Times edition

16th July, Perth, Western Australia � Today�s weekend edition of The NewsStan(d) is published in the thick of a dry winter Down Under, with farmers praying for rains that will quench this season's thirsty crops. With overnight temperatures the past week dipping to 3�C, even the editor wasn�t having it easy. Where�s a leather jacket when you need it most?!

It�s otherwise been largely glorious blue skies with slight cloud cover, with a couple of bleak wet periods. Even as God refreshes the earth, He generously bestoweth on us His grace. �G-R-A-C-E� as defined by today�s preacher at Subiaco Church was �God�s Riches At Christ�s Expense!� Indeed, that is the ultimate grace He�s lavished upon us.

Thank God for His daily grace even these past few days. Dorcas is well and counting down her days to graduation. She�s well on track to wearing the �mortar board� and realising her desire and love to help children with learning difficulties. The week�s been � hmm� the editor hardly ever falls short of words. How should he say it? Ok�it�s been rejuvenating-ly slow. Rejuvenating in the sense that it�s been a great week off away from the day-to-day manic of work and rejuvenating in the sense of making up for lost time or rather, the time we�ve lived �separate� lives. But here, time seems to come to a standstill. No hurry, no rush, no urgency to do anything. Maybe it�s just the paralysing cold of winter. But yes, I thank God for not only every remembrance of the ones I love, but even more for the moments you can physically spend with them.


Even as I type, I know that tomorrow I�ll leave behind (once more) Dorcas whom I know God will be ever faithful to attend to and care for, and ten stalks of orange tulips that I know Dorcas will faithfully tend to (till they wither).