De Cura Animarum: Still Settling In But Giving Much Thanks!

Saturday, 10 July 2010

Still Settling In But Giving Much Thanks!

This is just a quick note to let all the faithful readers know that we are beginning to settle into our new home in Shepherd's Bush. I am very pleased to be living here and love the area. I hope to be here for a long time to come. I have yet to unpack my books as I am awaiting shelves to be put into what is now my study. Once those are in this week, I can arrange the library and hopefully get back to a "normal" way of life.

So much has transpired over the last year where I am able to look back with much thanksgiving for where God has brought me and the family. Pursuing what I believe God to have placed on my heart for my part in advancing his Kingdom has come together in very surprising ways. Where I was one year ago and where I am today seems like two different worlds. I remember last year at this time writing that I felt like I had been thrown into the Atlantic and told to swim. But when I was put out into the deep, the buoys were there and lifeboats were sent to bring us to the shores across the Tiber and into the city of God. I am a living testimony to God's faithfulness to us as we pursue his will in faith, hope and love. All that I have prayed for and asked God to do in leading me to where I am has happened. It has not always been clear and at times very frightening and I confess to having days where I was lacking faith. It was 'I believe, help my unbelief.' God has not denied himself though my faith has not always seen the hope set before us in God's plans for our lives. But, what a transition the past 13 months have brought for my life and the life of my family!!! It is good to be home and it is very good to be a part of the family in the Westminster Diocese. May my labours here assist in the evangelisation of the faith once delivered to the saints!

Thank you all for your prayers and please do continue to pray for us! If you are in the area, do look me up and we can have a drink...I would love the assistance in pointing me to the good watering holes! I am also willing to put on a good BBQ (American style!). God bless you all and thank you so much!

3 comments:

shadowlands said...: Glad your'e all settling in! I used to live in Clapham, but up in the Midlands now.; 10 July 2010 21:34
Terry said...: Glad you are settling in well in London. Crowded, noisy but full of life and endless possibilities for evangelisation.

Best of luck in your new life down south!; 11 July 2010 04:27
Amanda said...: Was talking to Gerard yesterday about coming up to see you....
Did you mention a BBQ??
:-); 11 July 2010 07:00

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"I was once, five or six years ago, taken by some friends to have dinner with Mary McCarthy and her husband, Mr. Broadwater... She departed the Church at the age of 15 and is a Big Intellectual. We went at eight and at one, I hadn't opened my mouth once, there being nothing for me in such company to say... Having me there was like having a dog present who had been trained to say a few words but overcome with inadequacy had forgotten them. Well, toward morning the conversation turned on the Eucharist, which I, being the Catholic, was obviously supposed to defend. Mrs. Broadwater said when she was a child and received the host, she thought of it as the Holy Ghost, He being the most portable person of the Trinity; now she thought of it as a symbol and implied that it was a pretty good one. I then said, in a very shaky voice, Well, if it's a symbol, to hell with it. That was all the defense I was capable of but I realize now that this is all I will ever be able to say about it, outside of a story, except that it is the center of existence for me; all the rest of life is expendable."

- Flannery O'Connor