Prov 31 v 29

I celebrated my birthday this month,  more than three decades of being on earth.  This  pin  summarizes how I feel about my age.  I  didn't  have the big exciting feeling I had last year when I turned thirty. I  didn't  feel up to a big celebration. I just wanted a quiet day without the pressure of doing anything. I spent the day silently counting my blessing and planning this blog. I meant to write the blog and post it the evening of my birthday but I got tired and had to pack for my trip (I spent five nights away from home at a writing retreat). So anyway here is a list of what I am thankful for,  I have just selected a few things from my list.  God Who loves me and continues to lavish me with his undeserved grace and favour My husband The great friendship we have, your gentle heart towards me and for believing that my dreams are possible. My son For making me realise I don’t have to be perfect, and lo...

Today for the first time I went to drop off a friend at the airport. My husband is the one who does those kinds of chores in our household.   He did not want to wake up early so I volunteered to take our friend to the airport. As I thought about what I had volunteered to do, I began to doubt myself and I almost chickened out. I thought what if I oversleep? Well, morning came and as my alarm went off, I got up, got dressed and was ready before my friend arrived. As she got to our gate and rung me my husband asked if I was going to be ok. I wanted to tell him the truth that I was afraid but instead I told him I was going to be okay.   I drove my friend to the airport and came back home in one piece. You might be asking yourself what is the big deal about driving someone to the airport? Now that I have done it, it is no big deal really. The airport has the same road signs and traffic rules as the rest of the country. The roads are the same too. I know this because I hav...

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I was just playing around with my phone as usual taking lots of pictures of my gorgeous lil man! This was the result. I can't say it enough. I am blessed to be his mommy. He is a piece of heaven dropped into our lil big family at just the right time. ....and this is where he gets it all from. Mommy& daddy!

So I promised to tell you about what has been happening in my life.  I have good news and bad news. I just said that because many tv shows always say that. I heard someone say there is no bad weather only bad clothing. I guess in the same way we could say there is no bad news only bad thinking or interpretation of a situation but the jury is still out on that one. My faith has been put to the test recently and I am still reeling in the shock of some events that have happened. I am not sure where to begin so I will just start in the middle. I have a nephew who was shot in a car hijacking incident. He fought for his life for about three months and  died in mid-June this year. For a while my life came to a standstill as I just could not imagine losing him. Like I said in my last post, I prayed and gave God instructions that He could not allow him to die.  I wondered if God cared about the pain I felt and carried with me as I prayed and asked him to heal my nephew. I wond...

I am so stocked to let you all know that this blog was featured at gloriamarie.com on 25 July 2012. Thank you Gloria for the opportunity, you inspire me in more ways than you will know! I Kings 18-19  Psalm 23 I am always encouraged when I find that Bible heroes are in many ways similar to us mere mortals.  Ever read the story of Elijah. I am sure that some of you can recite it like a nursery rhyme. God has recently been ministering to me from the story of Elijah. To those who are not familiar with the story, Elijah was a prophet of God who was taken up to Heaven in a whirlwind. So he didn’t actually die and neither was he buried because he went directly to Heaven without tasting death. An interesting snippet from his life that I want to focus on is when he called all of Israel to Mt Carmel and challenged the prophets of Baal to pray to their god to come down and consume their sacrifices. The prophets of Baal spent the whole day  calling on their god but he ...