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God is so kind and tender towards us. He knows what we need and He loves us so much.

I’m so grateful for what He has done for me, and my loved ones, this year. He is so faithful. So thoughtful. Always perfectly on time.

We can all agree that 2020 was a crazy year. But 2021 has just started – so what now? My encouragement to you is this:

Don’t stop dreaming. Don’t press pause. Don’t shut down.

So many people were hanging on for New Year’s Eve secretly wondering if, perhaps at midnight, a switch would be flipped and life would be different as of January – and it just didn’t happen.

When you are dealing with something of SUBSTANCE, you don’t need to worry when the layers are peeled back because the core will remain intact.

What does that mean in the context of serving Christ?

God’s grace doesn’t fit in boxes of our making. What a refreshing thought. Opportunities to judge others will always present themselves. But it’s worth resisting that temptation – every single time.

As Believers, we know that we are ‘not to judge,’ we are to ‘esteem others as greater than ourselves’ and, mostly importantly, ‘love others.’ It’s easy to nod in agreement to that. It’s quite different to walk it out on the daily. As you would’ve realised, people are complex, and their lives are often messy. But complications aside, our

Adventure. Excitement. Novelty. Who doesn’t love the feelings newness brings? And oh, there’s so much to do and so much to see on this little green earth. But sometimes we’re required to do something bigger than moving overseas or changing careers: sometimes we’re asked to stay.

My Husband has recently started making sourdough bread from scratch, and boy is it a process. He originally had to grow the starters (a mix of flour and water kept in a jar) and then ‘feed’ them each day for over a week. During this time, our three stinky ‘pets’ grew and sometimes overflowed their fermented selves onto my tumble dryer. Yuck.

I LIKE TO-DO LISTS. If you’re a doer like me, it may have crossed your mind that having a clear To-Do list from God where you can tick off items one by one would be super helpful. Thankfully this is not how He works. A To-Do list would negate the need for both faith and relationship and would result in us “running ahead,” trying to do stuff in our own strength. The real tragedy, however, would not be the mess we would undoubtedly make, but rather the tragedy of missing

THE LORD IS OUR PROVIDER. We know this intellectually, as Believers, but do we believe it? Sometimes we need to take a moment to check our hearts and see whether we’ve placed our faith for having our daily needs met in God – or in our jobs. And we shouldn’t wait until we’re faced with potential retrenchment in order to do it!

I REMEMBER BEING THIRTEEN and still afraid of the dark; more specifically – what I perceived to be in the dark. I had done myself a disservice by watching multiple scary movies with my friends (it was a “sleepover standard” for us) but I was also once told a story – in children’s church – about a demon that the teacher had encountered.

IT IS VITAL that celebrating others and clapping for their successes becomes a genuine and intentional part of our lives. This is something that we may need to learn to do as opposed to doing instinctively.

DID YOU KNOW that the LORD comforts us – not only with a Fathers love – but with a Mother’s love too? He offers us more than what we could ever hope to receive from any one person. He longs to gather us under His wings like a Mother Hen gathers her chicks under her wings! Sometimes we forget that we can ASK Holy Spirit – the Comforter – to comfort us! The beautiful thing is that He is always willing.