time is moving on..

it's funny how our lives are governed by time, and what with our imminent move to south africa this is more real for me than maybe at any other time (!) of my life, the things that have happened to us over the last year are amazing and last weekend saw one of the final pieces of the jigsaw being put in place, no it wasn't the three year volunteer visa that we picked up from the south african embassy in trafalgar square, but the moving of our middle son to his university place in bath.....how time flies, it seems like yesterday when we were hearing his first sounds, or footsteps, or first day at school, or football match, but time moves on and our lives do too.....we can't wait to get out to south africa to work with the poor and needy but it is with a little tinge of sadness that we do so as another stage of our lives comes to an end here in england, for him it is the start of a new life without mum and dad around, for us we are having to let go of one of the most precious people in our lives and trust God to keep him safe as we all set out on our new adventures!