I am really grateful to God for November.
Overall, it was a good month. It was my birthday month and me birthday itself was alright – thanks again to those who remarked on it on me Facebook wall. I managed to get back to Stoke-on-Trent for the first time particularly since I moved to Bletchley. That trip was illuminative and left me with a sense that things have moved on for me in more ways than I had appreciated.
Over the month I’ve been blessed with some excellent conversations and mainly what I loved about the time was being able to blog again regularly, which I missed over the time when the laptop had been stolen. The Dryden Family are well here in Bletchley, the youngest one is doing well and growing and all that and has the cute face and everything, Abigail is taking her time adjusting to being the middle child, but the energy she has is amazing. Deborah continues to diligently and consistently do well at school and she’s a pleasure to have in the home as well. My love for my wife continues to blossom and I feel I appreciate her more now than I ever have before. still more to appreciate as well, but we have a lifetime to get through that. She’s an amazing woman – so you can see where Abigail gets it from – and is taking to motherhood x3 really well.
So much to be thankful for in November.
Now for December, and if the menu for the month is anything to go by then it bodes well. The beauty of not celebrating Christmas is that I still get the time off without the expense involved and I can either endure the festive television offering, or more likely just use the time to reflect on the year 2010 has been and enjoy the rest. As things have been arranged, I’ll have an extended time at the end of the year to relax and be restored so I really want to make the most of that.
Undoubtedly the highlight of the month is about the birth of someone who really was born in this month. My firstborn Deborah turns 6 at the end of this month and I am looking forward to her enjoying another year and what presents that might bring for her. The good thing about the timing f the day is that she doesn’t have to bring chocolate into the school – so she can share all the chocolate with her nearest and dearest (i.e. me).
As you’ll know already though, the month is dedicated on this blog to refreshing or enlivening the mind to the identity of Jesus. Today in particularly I was overwhelmed with a love for Jesus. when I think about the things to be thankful for, it all comes back to Jesus. My way of knowing God doesn’t make sense without Jesus. My whole manner of knowing what love is doesn’t make sense without Jesus. Appreciating sacrifice doesn’t make sense without Jesus. Understanding hard work doesn’t make sense without Jesus. Dealing with crisis doesn’t make sense without Jesus. Yet with Him though I don’t always succeed, I do know that things make a greater deal of sense and I hope this emphasis on His identity will fan the flame of devotion to Him.
I would like this month to be marked by that taking an even greater intensity than ever before and viewed in the best and worst of me in the home at work, and elsewhere.
Here’s to a great month for you and me.
For His Name’s Sake
Shalom
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