Be Still

Be Still and Know that I am God.

Psalm 46:10a

Here God is asking of us to lay aside the thoughts of life and focus on Him.  While the sons of Korah wrote this long ago through the Holy Spirit, it still holds so much significants for today.

We live in a world that doesn't want us to be still. A world full if deadlines and instant gratification. A place were we are to busy to listen for God's voice and a place were we are to busy to think. We are a culture that doesn't know how to sit still and think without dropping if to sleep. We no longer know how to be still. Our relationship with our Father in heaven suffers for it. We suffer, yet we don't even realize.

Make time... 

We do for many things we love. Yet with God we find it hard. Yet our time with Him is the most rewarding. 

He is the reason we are alive. That we wake up each morning. Have food to eat and a place to live. He alone is the giver of all blessings! 

Don't forget that....!

Thank Him and be still.

Raspberry the dream

We all go through life having dreams. Dreams we desire to be forfilled. Sometimes we dream and wait patiently knowing that the time is not right. Other times we dream and talk about it for it is a possibility.

Everyone has dreams, some that come to pass and some that never do. Life is full of God saying yes, no or wait. As human beings we never fully understand how God works, He is to far above us.

I think so often when God gives us a yes we do a little dance and run into whatever it is, forgetting to even think of the one who forfilled this dream. If we do remember we often grumble, what took you so long! I didn't want it yet...

Let us seek to learn to praise God whatever the answer.

I want to tell you of my dream. A dream I have had for many many years.

I have decided to name this dream 

Raspberry

You are a dream

I have had for years

A dream I knew 

That waiting was best

A dream I thought

May never come true

A dream I had

To trust God with

O God you took

It to your heart

You told me wait

Trust me, My child

But trust I did

My God knew my heart

So after many years

He took me, one step

On the journey ahead

Now I knew

That waiting would be

Long or short

Hard or easy

That God's timing

Is always best

I talked about you

Before you were here

We wondered, How long?

You came in a blink

A blink of an eye

I prayed

Please let this dream live

You lived and grew

I really treasure you

Thank you God

For your forfillment

This great blessing

You placed upon us

This little raspberry

Growing each day

Under your caring hand

And our loving gaze

JH

22-01-18

Living in Nelson

Over three months have passed since Jaime and I got married and nearly three since I came to Nelson. Life is certainly different, part from moving out of home and getting married and part from different towns.

There is the loves and the I miss moments.

Loves;

The weekly shop all by myself

Cooking whatever I feel like eating

Free time

Hugs!

Not waiting for Jamie to text back

Reading all day

Doing the washing

Walking

Phone calls from family

Snuggling in bed on Saturday morning

Fruit trees

Things I miss;

Noisy family

My car(that was never mine)

Wind!

Rain

A house with no flys because the frogs would eat them

Fast washing machine

All the families I worked for.

Carpet floors

The days are very different, not having work yet and having time up my hands. I really love the simple things in life through, like eating from my vege garden and cooking. Seeing Jamie's face when he sees dinner(they do say the way to a man's heart is through his stomach) Visiting Jamie's Oma and having a good chat over a cup of tea. Church activities. Knitting, I think I'm going to run out of wool. I have also been looking for work, sometimes it's an art to pick up interviews and at the moment its not working. We will get there in the end though.

You would think with all this time up my heands I would post regularly, but really I just think I'm not that kind of person. 

You would think with all of the time I have on my hands now days I would post regularly, I think you may be wishful thinking. I'm just not that good at making the time.

2018

It's hard to believe that another year awaits us. It feels like yesterday that 2017 was dawning.

So much has happened this year, so many thoughts, words and actions. A milestone year you could say.

My through wonder to what this next year will bring for Jamie and I. The joys and struggles that face us. 

So much can happen in a year and I think we can never understand that in our childhood, for each year feels long.

Now it flys by to fast in a way, each moment blending into another. Month into month year into year.

I used to be good at remembering the year and months things happened in, but no longer is that the case. I think my brain got to overloaded.

Time is precious, we need to make every minute count. To serve the Lord each breath, to show love and care. 

It's so easy in the business of life to forget why we were created. 

To glorify God and serve him forever!

My prayer is that you may remember this as you go through this year. That you may trully serve and love our God in all things.

May the Lord give you a blessed 

New year!