First of all, Jillian and I want to express our sincere thanks to all who have travelled on this journey with us over the past eight years of our lives.  The many thousands of prayers that have gone up for Rebekah have been answered in an incredible way.

Back in 2009 Jillian and I were told the double diagnosis of Neuro Sarcoidosis and Epilepsy Aphasia and since then Rebekah has received treatment from three consultants based out of the Sick Kids Hospital in Edinburgh.  Just over a year ago Rebekah was weaned off the last of her medication and tests were carried out which were repeated earlier this year.  The upshot of the test is that when we met with the Consultant in the Summer she informed us that she didn't quite know how to tell us the news but was delighted to do so.  She said your daughter has been healed.  To which Jillian responded by saying what do you mean by the word "Healed"?  The response came... "well as Consultants, before we met with you today we trawled back over Rebekah's test results and scan of which we have legion.  We can prove your daughters illness and all we as consultants have done is provide medication which we hoped would stabilise your daughter situation and allow her to develop and grow.  We always believed this would be the case with her until we no longer could work with her and expected to hand her over to the adult team.   Today we are telling you your daughter has been healed as medically based on the test results we have this is absolutely an impossible outcome"...  Jillian's immediate response was, "well we can explain it, many thousands of folk have prayed for our daughter to be healed and that is precisely what God has allowed us to see happen".

Many of you may be wishing we had shared this story much earlier and we can understand that.  For Jillian and I this has been a massive rollercoaster and one where we have wanted to be absolutely sure that the outcome we have been given was being born out in our child's life.  Praise God we have seen incredible milestones being achieved by Rebekah this past year.  The learning curve she is on has been huge but she is coping with it remarkably well.  She is learning to play the Fiddle and Piano and is managing both.  She is pretty much able to do everything that any other child her age can do.  Eighteen months ago she was suffering from stunted growth but now she has completely caught up on where she should be.

As we enter the Christmas season 2016 for the first time in eight years we can look forward to the year ahead, in the knowledge that, God willing, we will no longer have to make trips to Sick Kids.

The last two years has seen us move house up to the Highlands of Scotland to live on my Grandmothers croft which has been in our family for just short of 200 years.  This is an enormous privilege for us and one we are cherishing every day.  We love living in the country and being able to plan the next stage of getting sheep hopefully in the next few months on the croft.

Rebekah has just received her first report from Secondary 1.  We are very pleased with her progress and apart from 2 areas appears to be coping very well which we give God enormous thanks and praise.

As we look back over the last number of years we see God's hand woven throughout.  We have had so many verses of scripture given over many years.  However, God has been faithful and despite our struggles he has brought us to a new place.  In addition, not only have we had the joy of seeing our daughter healed we have had the joy of seeing her trust the Lord over the summer holidays.

Thank you for your continued prayers and for all the support you have been to us all over so many years.