Tom,

I missed this message until I saw James's response.

Very sorry to see the day finally come although I knew it had to.

May God bless you in your pilgrimage and ongoing journey further into Him.

I am certain that this will be a time of sadness for you as well as a time
of expectation and many other things. I am also certain that God knows what
He is doing and will lead you on into new and greater (and different)
experiences of Himself. I'm never quite so sure that God's other servants
know quite what they are doing or what God is intending of them (or hoping)
so I will hope and pray that your "superior's" discernment for you is indeed
in line with what God would have him decide for you.

I imagine that you will be both looking at the positive aspects of this new
leg of the journey, including the positive aspects of being led where you
may not quite really want to go and the new disciplines and bondages of the
will and flesh that such obedience brings - as well as seeing how they also
present themselves as negative aspects, both because they in some part are
and also because that is how the enemy will seek to present them at every
twist and turn of the way.As you well know. I pray that you will find God's
purpose and leading in very twist and turn of the way ahead and that He will
give you fulfilment far beyond what you presently conceive as possible in
your new circumstances.

I would very much like to stay in touch and hear what the journey holds for
you. Stay in touch and if you are sharing bits and pieces with others by
email I would be honoured if I was able to see the odd snippet that was
suitable for my seeing.

I'm presently rediscovering a great Catholic of the past, some of  whose
words have been of value to me a while ago. Some of his wider works now seem
worth looking at. He is Cardinal Newman who started as an Anglican and
famously converted to Roman Catholicism. I have downloaded the top level of
his "An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine" which links to the
fill paper at www.newmanreader.org. I hope to read it as time allows. Quite
a dangerous pursuit I imagine :-) - this was essentially his reasoned
explanation of his move from Anglican to Roman Catholic faith. Anon.

Stay in touch.
Have fun.
Go with God

        your brother in Christ Jesus,

                                                    Russell


PS        I only saw tonight about your wishing to buy a PC to allow ongoing
email use. Is this instead of the laptop you mentioned or a desktop or ???

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