Whose faith follow — Ronnie Watterson

A tribute to Ronnie Watterson (21st November 1935 — 30th May 2016)

In 2008, on furlough (more photos at end of post)

In January of 2017 I was over in N. Ireland with my family for a few weeks, and the brethren from the Assembly that meets at Cambridge Avenue, Ballymena, asked me to speak about some aspects of the life of my father. They separated one of their Saturday night meetings, mainly aimed at young people, for that purpose, and suggested the title: “Whose faith follow ...”

Wedding — Lorena and Renan

On the 11th of July, Elen and I gave away our eldest daughter Lorena in marriage to Renan. Both are believers in fellowship in the assembly here in Pirassununga, and we pray that they may live for the glory of God. Some photos of the wedding:

Explaining my silence

At the end of 2007 I had some health problems. Nothing serious, just some little difficulties that bothered me until August of 2008. After spending 17 days in hospital, when I saw how small is my faith (and I used to think it was quite strong!), God granted me a complete recovery.

During the year of 2008, due to these health problems, I only posted three little meditations to this blog (actually, three parts of one meditation). For a long time I’ve been wondering whether I should restart, or abandon this little occupation. I believe, however, that the effort to maintain these meditations is profitable for my spiritual life. If it be of help to anyone else, so much the better.

I make no promises regarding frequency of posts. This blog will only be updated when I have time (i.e., not often), and when I have something to say (i.e., rarely :-)

Your brother, Billy.

A fresh start

Blogger (which hosts this blog) recently switched to using Google-account log-in. For this blog, that change had a nasty side effect (due to a bug which permanently linked two separate user-profiles), which could be solved in only one way: delete the old blog, and create a new one.

So I got out the backup copies of this blog, and have republished everything. Unfortunately, the dates of the articles have been reset, and any comments have been lost. Apart from that (and a slight change in the colour-scheme), everything is back to normal.

Personal post — dad (2)

Dad and Mum are now back home (and mighty glad to be out of hospital :-)

Many thanks to all who prayed.

Personal post — dad

“Lord, behold, he whom Thou lovest is sick” (John 11:3).

Yesterday evening dad (Ronnie Watterson) was admitted into hospital. Please pray for him, as we feel he is still much needed amongst us. But we rest in the knowledge that our God and Father knows best, and loves him best. We trust in Him to do whatever He desires.

Personal post — scleroderma

Just a quick little note to let you all know that I've been diagnosed with Scleroderma, a rare autoimmune disease that affects the skin and, in some cases, some internal organs. I went to the doctor this morning with some exams done a few days ago, and these exams show that, at the minute, the disease is localised (just one oblong patch of skin, about 7 x 2 cm, in my waist).

So at the minute it’s nothing to worry about, but your prayers will be much appreciated.