Christine, thank you SO SO much for commenting here. And thank you for your lovely email. I am so disorganised about replying to email because I read it on my phone, but am a slow typer on the phone, and wait for later, and then….
I am so glad you liked the post. Thank you so much for your encouragement. You are so kind and generous!
love, Anita xx

Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God!
…the exceeding riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

And Oh, Anita, the undeservingness of this all!

Love and blessings,
christine

Hi Andy, thanks. I was reading the autobiography of Agnes Sanford “Sealed Orders,” who grew up as a Missionary kid in China, and was later a missionary herself and so was curious. Your father has had a rich spiritual background. I grew up Catholic, and am now a mere Christian, and go to an Anglican church. Blessings, Andy. Anita

I’m slow to reply, I’m afraid, but the answer is complex. My father’s experiences range from Chinese spiritualism / occult, Taoism, Buddhism, Seventh Day Adventist schooling, and later baptised into the Anglican Church (of England) when he married my mother. With all these mixed into his philosophy of life I struggle to describe the result. I believe myself what Christ says, “I am the Way, the Truth and the Life and no one comes to the Father except by Me”. I don’t think my Dad does and we discuss often. God knows and I keep loving him (Dad that is).

Hi again, Gisela, yeah, mistakes are just an inevitable part of being human! I am getting better at self-forgiveness.
Thanks much for reading and commenting!! 🙂

Hi Andy, How lovely to hear from you again!! I love your comment that ” “behold I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hear my voice and open the door I will come in and sup with him and he with Me,” in Revelation is “a fast-track promise.” Never realised that. How wonderful. I will remember that, and “open the door” more.
BTW, was your father born a Christian, or was he a first-generation convert? Just wondering.

It also helps me understand where my elderly father (95) is coming from. He says, “God is love, and that is all I need to know”. He has no patience for evangelical fervour or the idea that God’s word is true, living and active. I realise that he and indeed I are so slow at learning. Left to our own devices we are still in kindergarten. We need that ‘fast track’ promise of Christ in the book of Revelation, “behold I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hear my voice and open the door I will come in and sup with him and he with Me.” I need to be filled with His love; with Christ Himself, to overflowing; handing my whole being to Him and holding nothing back; more grace than I can understand.