A message from Ray:
Thursday 26th Feb. 2009
The nurses got me up today - walked 5 metres and back. Took some time to get on top of pain but feeling good now.
Thanks to all you beautiful, generous people who sent flowers and poetry books:
"Through the empty branches the sky remains
It is what you have
Be earth now and evensong.
Be the ground lying under that sky
Be modest now, like a thing ripened until it is red,
so that he who began it all
can feel you when he reaches for you"
Rainer Maria Rilke
I had a visit fom a surgeon who was doing his rounds with 3rd year students. Sharing some of our stories - he delivers Gideons bibles to schools and industries. He expressed his passion of becoming a chaplain in schools. We shared contact numbers and he is coming to share a conversation mid-week. He knows a number of the Bendigo chaplains. What an asset to our organisation ACCESS ministries - sorry guys, can't help myself.
I will contact you all in the weeks ahead.
Ray