Friday, February 17, 2006
Blessed be Your name
Just a quick entry to say that I am still feeling blessed again by God, and also protected. There are still battles to fight, but God's cutting some of them off at source so there's less. And He's turning situations that I thought were bad into times of blessing, namely being sent to another city to work for the week.
God's given me a team to work with this week who have been incredibly lovely to me and very friendly. He's allowed me the chance to meet with people of peace and christians needing support in that city. And on the journeys back he's blessed me with lovely friends to chat to.
It's all melding together to give me a real feeling of me being held safely in God's hands. Knowing that I am never outside of his control, his love and his peace. Things to remember when I close my eyes a little bit more and stop noticing the things He does for me.
And tomorrow night it's a meal out with people of peace. Praise God!
God's given me a team to work with this week who have been incredibly lovely to me and very friendly. He's allowed me the chance to meet with people of peace and christians needing support in that city. And on the journeys back he's blessed me with lovely friends to chat to.
It's all melding together to give me a real feeling of me being held safely in God's hands. Knowing that I am never outside of his control, his love and his peace. Things to remember when I close my eyes a little bit more and stop noticing the things He does for me.
And tomorrow night it's a meal out with people of peace. Praise God!
Tuesday, February 07, 2006
Lily
I was thinking about my Nan who was an amazing person, a great Christian who stayed faithful until the end, who inspires me to this day and who I still miss.
And I was thinking that isn't it crazy that when I see her in Heaven that she probably won't seem so much older than me. In fact, I'm guessing that she'll seem the same age as me - in so far as age as a concept can continue in a place without aging.
And I was thinking that isn't it crazy that when I see her in Heaven that she probably won't seem so much older than me. In fact, I'm guessing that she'll seem the same age as me - in so far as age as a concept can continue in a place without aging.
Monday, February 06, 2006
Consuming fire...
Friday, February 03, 2006
Friends
Feeling blessed at the moment by friends.
I learnt a long while ago that where others trust God for provision that, as an extrovert, I can trust God for friends as part of that provision.
It's not always easy instant friendships and it's not always the kind of friendships that I expect.
But God is faithful and he gives me friends, people that I can process life with as I go along.
Before I came back to God the vast majority of my friends were male. Whilst that's not necessarily a problem, it doesn't help grow the female parts of my character so much.
Since that time God's been teaching me about female friendships to the point where, outside of my marriage, they are by far the majority of my friendships. And I now love those friendships they help me be who I am and discover more and more who I am.
And right now God has blessed me with some amazing women as friends, women that I am proud to know. Women in such different situations and with different characters, but all fantastic people.
And I feel so blessed.
If anything is certain, then God is a God of change, and so i know that I can't hold on tight to any of these friendships as they may wane over time or a change of location or vision may cause the friendships to naturally fall away. But right now, I am blessed and I love it.
Thank you God. You are my provider. I love you and I love my friends.
I learnt a long while ago that where others trust God for provision that, as an extrovert, I can trust God for friends as part of that provision.
It's not always easy instant friendships and it's not always the kind of friendships that I expect.
But God is faithful and he gives me friends, people that I can process life with as I go along.
Before I came back to God the vast majority of my friends were male. Whilst that's not necessarily a problem, it doesn't help grow the female parts of my character so much.
Since that time God's been teaching me about female friendships to the point where, outside of my marriage, they are by far the majority of my friendships. And I now love those friendships they help me be who I am and discover more and more who I am.
And right now God has blessed me with some amazing women as friends, women that I am proud to know. Women in such different situations and with different characters, but all fantastic people.
And I feel so blessed.
If anything is certain, then God is a God of change, and so i know that I can't hold on tight to any of these friendships as they may wane over time or a change of location or vision may cause the friendships to naturally fall away. But right now, I am blessed and I love it.
Thank you God. You are my provider. I love you and I love my friends.