Grrrrrrrrrrrrr my internet is starting to majorly tick me off!  I am will be online talking to people and BAM it goes off and I end up looking like a jerk, because I leave mid conversation.  So sorry to all the people I have cut off, it’s not my fault, really.

Currently Reading Wild Swans : Three Daughters of China By Jung Chang see related

"For my own part, I have never ceased to rejoice that God has appointed me to such an office. People talk of the sacrifice I have made in spending so much of my life in Africa. Can that be called a sacrifice which is simply paid back as a small part of a great debt owing to our God, which we can never repay? Is that a sacrifice which brings its own blest reward in healthful activity, the consciousness of doing good, peace of mind, and a bright hope of a glorious destiny hereafter? Away with the word in such a view, and with such a thought! It is emphatically no sacrifice. Say rather it is a privilege. Anxiety, sickness, suffering, or danger, now and then, with a foregoing of the common conveniences and charities of this life, may make us pause, and cause the spirit to waver, and the soul to sink, but let this only be for a moment. All these are nothing when compared with the glory which shall hereafter be revealed in and for us. I never made a sacrifice. 
                 -David Livingstone