Later we were in a church north of Brisbane and remembered the church-family back at Knutsford Methodist Church and that wherever we are God is, and speaks to us through every situation.

The first Sunday back home we sang the hymn, "The day thou gavest, Lord, is ended", which has a verse, "As o'er each continent and island the dawn leads on another day. The voice of prayer is never silent, nor dies the strain of praise away".

God speaks to my heart and tells me that His love is constant and goes on forever, and whatever situation I am in He is with me.

In the last three or four years especially, God has spoken to me powerfully, and very gently at other times through music, hymns and songs, sermons and the Bible, the living word. When times have been most difficult and I have been at my weakest, He has been my strength and has spoken very gently. The Holy Spirit speaks to my heart and ministers to me and reveals His truth, not always what I want to hear but I know that He disciplines me as a father his child whom he loves.

I do believe that God's voice is never silent but my problem is that I am not listening, really listening. That is when I distance myself from God and put myself where God should be - in the centre of my life.

As I have grown in my Christian life I am lost in wonder at what God brings about through prayer. "He is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine..." (Ephesians 3. 20). The more I pray the more I see God at work. Prayer is vital. Little by little He is moulding and shaping me. God has not finished with me yet. This is so true for me; I fail so often but God's love is constant.

God's love is evident in the lives of the family at Knutsford Methodist Church. The love has grown and deepened over the years, which is due to God's grace and which is encouraging and healing, and for which I thank and praise God.