Moving on

Busy days over Christmas and New Year. The sorting and throwing and packing has gone on apace but we also had some great times for visiting family. I made one more hike along the whole of the Aramahoe to Paihia walk with grandson Tim—something I could never have done twelve years ago before the half-knee operations.

And this year we sang a lot of carols. Our worship leaders included more than usual and our people are great singers. Of course they love the traditional and the familiar ones. 

At Christmas it seemed right not to ask too many questions about the images and myths from other ages. We just enjoyed the music and the atmosphere. There are other times in the year to ask the hard questions about what we sing and say and pray.

I hope Bev and I will be in churches where those questions are explored as our life begins to take a different direction.

Our villa at Hibiscus Coast Retirement Village is being refurbished, but slowly, we suspect. We still expect to pick up the keys on 28 Feb. At the same time we’ll pick up a mortgage on the unsold home in Paihia— this is not a good time for selling around here.

It’s going to be hard to leave this place but it’ll be great to be closer to Auckland family and we’re sure this is the right thing to be doing at this time. That’s OK.