Tired and pensive, but eating for Wales!

Up till now the 'others' were claiming that they didnt realise he needed further treatment, just happy in the normal expectation that he's getting better, which he is. In fact he's eating like a horse - oh, except they dont tend to go for steak! Someone kindly brought him a slab of rump to 'beef' him up (the rest of us enjoyed tasty sausages) which he merrily waded through. Life for the two younger ones has very much returned to normal with the return to school. Pads' teachers only found out about the illness on Monday and this is the first time they've had to deal with anything like it. So they feel a bit out of their depth but Ally was really impressed by how thoughtful and imaginative they're being to help him keep up to speed as much as he is able to over the next months. He wants to see his chums tomorrow in school but we're all a bit worried how they will react to the 5 inch scar at the back of his head - some will be appalled and others may mock... but he's not swayed by such thought thus far.
We've all been reading up on cancer treatments, the others were reading Annie's story on the way to school this morning! Himself was on Captain Chemo this morning. He's getting the message that treatment is going to have unpleasant side effects and this has contributed to a fairly pensive mood today. He felt too tired to come out to our 5th Anniversary Preaching Rally tonight which the rest of us enjoyed tremendously. The safest route between doing too much and not enough is to leave it up to him. Dr Peter Masters came, in spite of being quite ill himself, and gave a wonderful, compelling, clear gospel message from 2 Kings 6:17

And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.

He explained that although the young man in question had better vision than the prophet, he had not seen how God's power could help. Elisha's prayer, for the lad's eyes to be opened, needed to be ours, for ourselves or others who are not saved. The message, which will soon be available via our website, was a repeat of the one preached in the Met Tab in May of this year.