Time goes by

Apologies for the serious lack of blogs over the past 6 months but I feel that it was important to step back and re-evaluate, at the beginning of the year I went through a major crisis - nothing was going right and although I couldn't see it at the time, God was carrying me through situation after situation.

I have moved house 3 times and now feel very settled in a detached bungalow within a very quiet road and I believe that THIS has been the right move for me.

One area of my life that seemed to take a major stumble was my faith and where I went to worship, I stepped back from the comfort of the Salvation Army and to this day I don't know why I did - the people there have been so supportive to me and if those people are reading this blog then you know who you are. I now attend a large evangelical church in portishead, as for what the future holds for me ..... I do not know - I do feel that through everything I have been through in the past year God has been with me and given me the strength to continue and I just want to praise God for his continued faithfulness.

God Bless each of you at this special time of Christmas

Sue x

Footprints

One night I had a dream. I dreamed I was walking along the beach with God, and across the sky flashed scenes from my life. For each scene I noticed two sets of footprints in the sand, one belonged to me and the other to God

When the last scene of my life flashed before me I looked back at the footprints in the sand. I noticed that at times along the path of life there was only one set of footprints. I also noticed that it happened at the very lowest and saddest times of my life.

This really bothered me and I questioned God about it. "God, you said that once I decided to follow you, you would walk with me all the way, but I noticed that during the most troublesome times in my life there is only one set of footprints. I don't understand why in times when I needed you most, you would leave me."

God replied, "My precious, precious child, I love you and I would never never leave you during your times of trials and suffering. When you see only one set of footprints, it was then that I carried you.


** I feel that this is me at the moment and would ask that you would pray for me that I will know and feel God's presence around me whatever the situation I find myself in **

Mistakes

I find myself often making mistakes but its never the same mistakes. Recently I moved into a 1 bed house, soon after moving I knew that it wasn't right and that I needed to be living in Pill. Not knowing what to do I confided in a friend who said that she would pray for the situation. A 2bed apartment came available and God has been very faithful to me and I pray that I will be forever his loving child whom he loves very much. Thank you God for leading me

Moving forward

This week although still off sick I have been sorting out my new house and said goodbye to my old house in Pill - new beginnings. I have had time to think recently and someone from my church had this word that I was to keep pushing through the clouds to see the beautiful future that God has in store for me. I can't deny that life has been tough over the last couple of months but do believe that God has been with me giving me strength to deal with everything that I have had to deal with.

My thoughts returned to childrens work this week and felt that it was time to take on the responsibility of the childrens club and so after easter I will be the "Kids Alive" leader again.

Life can be hard at times but with God at my side I have absolutely nothing to fear.

Romans 8:28

Time

I have often thought about time - where is goes, the great big clock of life just ticks away continually. The other day I was chatting to a friend who felt that God had given her a picture which she felt was for me. She had a picture of big clouds but all I had to do was push through the clouds to wonderful and beautiful blue sky behind and all the wonderful things that God has ahead of me - I felt so blessed to hear this as am going through a tough patch, all around me seems pretty dark - I know that God is close to me. We serve a loving God who is there all the time and also when things are hard. Psalm 121 - I lift my eyes to the hills, where does my help come from, my help comes from the Lord, maker of heaven and earth

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As I write this blog its the early hours of the morning - after another restless night I decided to get up and do something useful. These last few weeks have been very stressful and if I wasn't a christian with God right at my side helping me I'd be in a terrible state. On sunday someone at the corp gave me a verse from Job8:7....as I sat down to read this later in the day I soon realised that God has something better for me and there are times when we have to put things down - that is difficult in itself but I know with Gods strength all things are possible.

An opportunity came my way last evening to work the under 5's on a sunday morning at the Corp and this week we are going to look at the feeding of the 5000 and how Jesus blesses the bread and the fish. The little boy only had 5 loaves and 2 fish but he gave what he had to Jesus to use.......................it got me thinking "What do we have that we can also give to Jesus"
So please pray for "The Sparklers" that God will work through me to show His love to the little children.

God Bless