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Its been amazingly rainy here this week....

A poem:

Rain falls on the sunshine soaked ground,
Purging it of any deluded ideas it had of going on forever.

The air is strangely easy to breathe,
Like there’s a weight lifted off: expectations of greatness.

This week has been amazingly sunny here in Christchurch (great for Liz) we went to Kaikoura on Mon morning stayed the night saw the best waterfall with baby seals (thanks for the tip Sharyn), were talking like 20+ baby seals up close it was great, then went to Hamner on the way home we went on the waterslides it was fun.

Now we are going to play some more scrabble cards (thanks Danielle, Shaun and Brodie) (sorry about the spelling)


Here are photos we took of liz and seals

Reading Brain McClarins A generous Orthodoxy I am enjoying and not only because its nice to have time to read, in only in the first half but it intersting to hear about how Brain puts together the different peices that are the different traditions of Christian faith/practise. As someone who was raised a Catholic, spent university in the "evangelical union" married a brethern (with anabaptist tendedncies) goes to a baptist church works side by side with a anglican vicars wife and has various pentecostal freinds its intersting. I really do beleive we all have so much to learn from each other.

Had a really nice weekend.

It was my birthday on Friday I made chocolate eclaires to take to work and it worked really well. Just an edmonds recipe it was easy and really tasty! Definitly one to try again. Was a really fun day.

Saw Siones wedding on Shauns birthday that was quite good (although quite rude)

And today Paul I and Lawrence went for a swim at the beach.. yes the beach here in Christchurch .... it was such a nice day. Michial came down to the beach and brought Kizzy for her first trip to the beach!

Yeah so lots has been happening its been good.