2010 A Reprise

I sat down this afternoon with what I thought was a great title for today’s Blog.  It came from an immaculate source – I dreamt it up after yesterday’s church service.  The title was “2010 WAS IT 365.25 DAYS OR DID WE LEARN SOMETHING”, catchy but not too cute I considered but after six lines I knew it wasn’t going anywhere.

So the learning, make that re-learning, cycle starts right from day three of the new year.  You see one of the strongest lessons of 2010 was for me that I can still write, put words together or whatever.  The first part of that lesson is the conviction that I am not doing this in my own capacity, I might put the words together but it is God who directs my thoughts.  Without His inspiration, and even clarification at times, I would be a hundred word wonder every blue moon

Since Mad Mad World was commenced back in the second week of April it has been published mostly every day five days a week.  This is all down to Father’s support and encouragement, I spent weeks prior to that issue arguing that I had lost the skills, that I didn’t have the concentration, nor the ideas to commit to a project such as this. But over the last 8 months He has proved me wrong.  Except in those times, such as this afternoon when I step out of harness and ironically it is I who prove myself right. After al the title was my idea.

I do not know what your 2010 was like, whether it was good or not so good but I do know this, the year was either in His hands or it was in yours.  From my experience I can only say His are infinitely better and although sometimes things may not go quite as we plan, or seem to, with God at the tiller the seas are smoother, the waves are not as big, and it is a better voyage to the destination He has chosen for us.

Of course having said all that our year wasn’t not what we thought it would be.  We had to move early in the year to make the house available for someone else.  After searching for weeks we finally found a house that seemed to tick every box on our wish list for a home.  But after four months the agent came to do an inspection and informed us the landlord had placed a development request with council to erect a second house on the block.  This would take out Sue’s back garden and my garage which would be replaced with two carports each, no space for tools.

So far we haven’t heard any more about the development and so far we have no idea why we are here but there is only one recourse, trust God and accept His will.  He may have a bigger better plan in the wings than we can understand or even imagine at this point.  Always remember that He has made promises to us, each of us, that He has plans to prosper us, and that He will never leave us nor forsake us

There is something unique about our relationship with Father, He is there for us in every circumstance of life no matter how dire or exalted  He is the One who deals out life lessons on a daily basis for us to learn from; or not. He is also the One who waits for us when we misbehave, presume upon, and even walk out on Him.

I hope that 2011 will bring with it as much blessing that He brought to me over 2010 in terms of blessing, but also where necessary rebuke.  We only grow in the times where we have to work for our faith, where the trials may seem to be wearing us down; remember that other great old promise He knows our capabilities and will not push us beyond that which we can stand.