"In spite of it all -- hope still lives. Friends, there is much joy to be found in the journey. And it is in those darkest hours -- the hours when we haven't even the muster to stand -- that we find that joy to be the greatest. And it is the greatest because it is incomprehensible. Inconceivable, joy. We cannot fathom where it is coming from. Though outwardly our bodies are frail, our speech is weak... inwardly we have risen to unspeakable heights. Soaring on strength which carries us like wings of eagles..."

Written on the spur of the moment for my newly launched website, www.littlegirlinchina.com. It amazes me what comes to my brain in the wee hours of the morning. Many of you will ask "What? A website? How did this come about?" And that's a story I'd love to tell you. It is beautiful. But it's a story for another day... For now, it's off to bed I go :-)