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One Year On

Dear Friends, My blog has just had its first birthday!  A year has gone by so quickly and I'm so grateful to God for enabling me to write a new post once a week for a whole year.  On my own it would have been impossible and if anyone had told me more than a year ago that this would be one way I could serve God I don't think I would have believed them. I want to thank you, dear friends, who have faithfully stayed the course with me so far and have given me so much encouragement along the way.  God has blessed me so much as I have followed his leading and I trust that as you have read these posts that you too have been blessed and encouraged by God. When a Christian friend made the suggestion of writing a blog I could so easily have got swept up in the moment, getting carried away with the idea without stopping to consider whether this was of God or not.  It is often my way that I go full steam ahead when I get an idea without considering...

Trusting In God

“ Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.” Proverbs 3:5-6 (NIV)   I have mixed feelings as I begin this first entry of my first ever blog!   Feelings of trepidation (love that word!) as I know so little about technology,  ( I only opened a facebook account less than a year ago with the help of Jason, my husband, and Josh, my son)   and also feelings of excitement because this blog encompasses two of my loves – writing and sharing truths that God has taught me. I met with the Senior Minister at my church for a chat as I have just entered a new season.   He brought up the suggestion that I  might like to write a blog and from the moment he mentioned it, I was gripped by the idea. I have always loved writing, as a child I kept a diary and would write many stories, and now I keep a journal, so it seems a natura...