News from home

I heard some sad news today about a friend of mine passing away yesterday. I lived in the flat above his house for almost a year before moving over here and value the time I spent with him, his wife and baby girl. He was only young, in his mid twenties and it's such a tragic loss.
I feel like the world has lost something. Not just those that knew him.

I went to school with Mel and Wil - he was a highly creative engineer and we shared an interest in art, photography and films. I'd often hear him, our friend Mark and maybe his brother or brother in law outside taking the remote control car out for a spin up the street. An enlarged photo he'd taken of his little girl, Lola, sitting in the bathtub surrounded by bubbles sat with pride of place on their lounge room wall. Saying "Hi!" as I arrived home from work to see him sitting in the garage diligently working on a model car.

Mel and Wil with their families and friends have been through many tough times over the last year and half since his cancer diagnosis - I pray and ask God that peace and a warmth of heart might come to them as they celebrate his life and mourn his loss.

There are a number of people that are still fighting the cancer cells back home - so many that it frightens me. Please know that you're not far from my heart.