Happy Year With Blessings
I guess it’s too late to say HAPPY ‘NEW’ YEAR !
It’s been a busy time with everything that is Christmas, family, writing and editing the Lent to Pentecost guide to accompany Martha Martha, and all the other bits of life that have to be stuffed in between, like trying to build my fitness back up, cleaning, washing, shopping, the list is endless. I’m exhausted just thinking about it.
We celebrated Christmas day on the 23rd December, as that was the day our family were all free. Our second celebration took place on the Friday after Christmas, again because that was the day everyone could make it. It felt funny being out of sync with everyone else, but it worked so well. One of the silver linings was seeing my nephew and his two lovely children, unexpectedly. The other was staying in bed till 11 am and watching TV on Christmas day. I can’t remember that ever happening before. Simply delicious! And Jesus was at the heart of it all. Being flexible about the date of our celebrations meant family members could be with their other families on Christmas day. Win, win. And because boxing day was free, a very special friend came and cooked us crepes with caramel sauce. What a blessing.
With the new year, came encouragement to continue the assignment to pray the blessing of God over our town. I don’t know about you, but I need regular encouragement that I am hearing from Father God and He is never slow to give it.
Last week saw us at an Evangelism conference which was both affirming and inspiring, thanks to J. John and his wonderful team. To meet such gifted and diverse delegates at breakfast, coffee, lunch, dinner and in the corridors, was a privilege (although I felt a little bit of a fraud), and I sold a few books too. What is needed now is time to digest this delicious feast, so none of the powerful nutrients are lost but fully absorbed.
We are off to another conference this weekend on God’s healing (Womack Ministry). Hopefully, all part of God’s plan, so we’re set up and spiritually ready for the year ahead.
However, my main endeavour, over the last two months, has been working hard on the Guide to reading Martha Martha through Lent to Pentecost. It starts on Ash Wednesday, the 14th February this year, and concludes on the 9th May, which is Pentecost or Whitsun. Its a little different to traditional Lent guides, exploring a wide range of themes from the book, chapter by chapter. Hopefully it will be the perfect guide to accompany Martha Martha for those that haven’t read the book yet, and an incentive to read it again, for those who have. The guide is FREE to download from this website from next week.
A big thank you to those of you, who encouraged my to write this, those who read it over Christmas, and fed back to me, and for the layouts. The Goodness of God comes from so many of his lovely people in so many different ways.
What I really need now is a holiday,
and warm feet. It’s freezing in my study :)
With love Ceridy