The Ransom!!! And other pressing matters

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Date: 27 March 2006 00:34:52

I managed to speak to Guy briefly yesterday and I've found out the amount of Kinder Eggs which Gloria is demanding!!
Gloria wants 50 Kinder Eggs from us in axchange for Guy.
She will not let him return to British soil until she has guarantee that I will deliver them.
I am still hopefull that negotiations will take place. Who knows, I may even be able to haggle her down to a more reasonable amount.

In the mean time, one might say that the teenagers at my work were in a mean sort of mood today, with these few hours being the most exhausting shift in a long while. My brain is working overtime as to whether we could have done anything different and whether it would have worked. Had to stay over and write up about their antics and finished work 1h15 late. I wouldn't mind if i didn't finish at ten normally :)

Had a great time down the pub sat night with some groovy friends. I decided that I miss Nina and our girlie clubbing nights out from uni. I've never really enjoyed going out to clubs and dancing and being daft with anyone else. Hadn't actually realised that.

It may sound odd but I'm in mourning, well there is a part of me that is anyhow.
It hit me as I walked from my favourite safehouse on this planet exactly how much of a refuge K&P and their twins are to me. I've known for maybe 3 or 4 years now that I will one day lose them to Australia.
Well yesterday Pol told me that she's filled in her visa.
I'm so glad for them. It's going to be a marvellous move and their life there will be better in many ways. I know it's the right time and it feels so exciting and good. God is saying to them 'Now is the time' and that's the best sound possible.
But as I say, their home, their family, they each as individuals, are more precious than gold to me. They are a safehouse, a refuge, a haven and, right now, I am very afraid of the gap which their departure will leave in my life. I've got months to get used to it, to grow in my Kind and Gracious God's hands and will, to change even and to find that God is my security etc, but that hasn't happened yet, now in not yet then and in the meantime...
I can feel the pain inside me of losing 4 of my best friends and people who have been family to me in most precious ways. We've loved one another for sometime. I don't like goodbyes. I've had much more than my fair share of them.
God knows I'm in His hands where He keeps me safe and whole. He also knows how very useful and instrumental K, P and the lads have been in making that process possible. I'll easily admit that they've kept me sane and been there for me in some crap times, probably even without being aware of it, they became my purpose and assignment for awhile a long time ago and that kept me afloat while it needed. God's made them precious to me in a million ways, I can't tell them or God enough and I am very very thankful for them indeed.
I'm just apprehensive of what shape life will take on with them so far away. Since the 15 or whatever miles to Staffordshire have been a hurdle, I expect half the planet will be one too...
Hmmm!
Only a prayer away though, only a prayer away!
God's weird...