last thursday

Last thursday, it was good to see almost the whole team together for the sessions on our Goals and steps for 2010. To see so many of us together is a rare event. It was a timely reminder that we are all part of Gods family.

my anniversary 2

I told the team in devotions this morning that it is my anniversary tomorrow. It will be 15 years since I joined OM. I was then very touched at how Chris Prayed for me that I had been an encouragement and that I would see many answers to prayer this year. I watch and wait.

The things we know and the things we do not know

There are things we know, and the reason that we know them is that God has revealed them. There are things that we do not know because God has not revealed them. God expects us to believe and act on the things that he has revealed.

The readers digest

It is amazing what you see if you casually read the Readers Digest. I saw something in it yesterday that set me thinking that God in his providence knew that I would see that particular article and be reaussured that he is working.

my anniversary

It will be my anniversary on the 9th of January. I have just been out and bought a cake for it. It will be 15 years since I joined OM. Through those years, one way or another God has sustained me and I thank him for it.

Amatuers

Today is one of those days where a word I thought of before the politicians did is very apt. That word is amatuer. I have just found out that a stand has to be collected and brought here and when someone says to me collected from the office, then that is what I understand it to mean, THE OFFICE. However, now it has to be collected from a house. I was also told to have it delivered here, but now the email says deliver somewhere else. They want an exact time as if any courier driver can set his watch and be at a certain house at an exact time. I have never met one yet who could to that because of the demands of the job.

I will be on facebook and a perspective on myself

I will be on facebook later this week having dropped it from Christmas. I find that it is good for being in touch with old friends.

I said earlier that keeping this blog gives me perspective. I do hope that at the end of this year when I look back, I will find that I have made progess in being a better christian. That I will have faithfully pressed on toward the final goal. That I would love the lord and his word all the more.

I changed my mind

I changed my mind about going to knutsford. I mis spelt it first time. I would like to go later in the year. There are a few places I would like to visit this year. I hope to see my second cousin, I want to see the Doctor Who exhibition. I would also like to go to Blists Hill. According to the advert they have a new street.

knutsford and being alone and the end of the Doulos

I was lying in bed this morning listeng to "Womans Hour". Yes you did read that correctly, "WOMANS HOUR". Sometimes men listen to things not aimed at them. The main subject was costume dramas and this of course led to a discussion about Cranford. I now realise that it was based on knutsford which is somewhere in cheshire, so if the weather is not too bad tomorrow, I may go there to have a look at it.

A lot of the time, I would like to have someone to do things with. If I do go to Nutsford tomorrow I will be alone, but if I did not do things alone, then it is doubtfull if I would do them at all. Perhaps I may come back with some interesting photos. I find that I now photograph things just because I think they are beautiful such as a photo I took of the sun shining through a tree. If I was using film I probably would not do that because of the cost of developement. I was reminded of how much that could cost when I got some films developed recently that I actually shot three years ago. I knew that I had photos of my family and the Doulos among them and I wanted to get the Doulos photos developed so that I could scan them and put them on facebook now that the old girl has reached the end of her days. Come to think of it, as today is the first of January, this is the first day without the Doulos.

What I saw on the last day of 2009

Yesterday was the last day of 2009. I went out to do a bit of shopping and when I got back, I looked out the kitchen window and saw and ambulance car and and ambulance going to chris and jackies. I had seen Jackie at the top of the driveway. I now realise that she was there to direct the ambulance.

I expect I will be told later what was going on.

The first day of 2010

Last nights Hogmonay party in the Sunday School was fun. It was very relaxed, I even had a bit of a go at dancing as I did for the OM christmas party. I have started to change my opinion of my dancing skill. I have always thought that I was bad at it. I still do not think I am as good as I would like to be, but I have come to realise that I generally know what I am doing and most people do not. I reached that conclusion at the christmas party and at last nights party I realised that most people get things wrong because they are thinking about the stepps and not really listening to the music.

this is the first year of 2010. The only thing I can think of that my family have planned for it is Carolyn and Ians wedding. Apart from that , I wonder what God has in store for us. Will there be any glorious conversions? One thing I am certain of is that in all circumstances God wants me to be steadfast and faithfull. I am sorry to say that I know of people who have fallen by the way. People whom I know once named Jesus as saviour but do not do so today. I am reminded that scripture says that he who endures to the end shall be saved. I do not believe that means that we work to be a saved for Jesus has done that for us. I think that what this scripture says is that enduring to the end is a result of having true saving faith.

I look forward to 2010. Perhaps it will have its disappointments, but I look forward to what God will do be it in big or small ways.