One of the beautiful things about end of year shin-digs is the opportunity it gives you to reflect on the year that was. Last night’s blog post was very important for me to write to encourage myself more than anyone, and thus in as much as I write in the hope that others will be blessed, challenged, encouraged or even merely informed, it will stand as a witness to who I was at that time in life.
As for 2011 – it’s worth making a note here of how grateful I am to God for last year. For the best part of the last 15 years it has been rather chaotic and at times traumatic. Up until last year, without fail something of huge significance took place in the year. In as much as I am not in the palce where things are never challenging or unsettling, 2011 was the first in a long time in which I could call it consolidating.
It’s been almost four years since the last time I spent a calendar year in the same home, so it was a delight to be able to get that covered in the last year. I am too aware of getting comfortable anywhere, but I do enjoy the comfort that God afforded the family this year. It has been an honour to make friends and acquaintances in different areas in Milton Keynes. It is a joy to have experienced so much in this locality.
I am grateful to God for the good people I’ve come across as well as the annoying ones who have again exposed my inadequacies and impatience despite my better intentions.
Also so thankful for the friends from different parts of my past who have remained so loyal and caring and have enhanced my life no end even though I’m on the other side of the country! That’s family. That’s why I love loving God, because His love is evidenced in people who are so brilliant and help me enormously to love God and others.
To be honest, I’m still in search of more tangible community in the Christian sense. I’ve had some positive steps over 2011, but there are more steps to take, but again I’m grateful for the steps taken thus far.
There are frustrations that have almost caused me to despair, and when I would have given up, my Father in heaven has granted me the greatest blessing a man can have – a faithful and devoted wife. Authrine has been tremendous for me in 2011, and I am truly grateful that she has seen it fit to stick with me in the good and not so good times in 2011.
The year that has just been completed is one that may not be as action packed and full of twists and turns as other years, but I am still ever so grateful that God has taken me through and I endeavour to look to remain thankful whatever He takes me through in the days, weeks and months to come
For His Name’s Sake
Shalom
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