Our family at Beeston Castle ruins in 2004
Right before we left the UK for a 3-month furlough in 2005
Autumn 2006 in Lilford Park, a favourite place
Our 2nd worship venue, the youth center in Culcheth
Our 3rd worship venue, Culcheth High School
(our last service with these dear friends we ministered to)
Our street the day before we left, 9 years ago
Who knows what wonderful roads we will find ourselves on this summer? God shall lead us beyond Memory Lane to new experiences to share while all our girls are still at home.
As we return to our Shire (Lancashire) I think of the song Bilbo Baggins sang in Tolkien's classic The Hobbit:
Roads go ever ever on,
Over rock and under tree,
By caves where never sun has shone,
By streams that never find the sea;
Over snow by winter sown,
And through the merry flowers of June,
Over grass and over stone,
And under mountains in the moon.
Roads go ever ever on
Under cloud and under star,
Yet feet that wandering have gone
Turn at last to home afar.
Eyes that fire and sword have seen
And horror in the halls of stone
Look at last on meadows green
And trees and hills they long have known.
Tomorrow that road begins from our front door!
Further Up and Further In,
Brian
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