Happy New Year
Happy New Year! :) I hope you have had a really wonderful start to the year, and that 2009 holds lots of hope and promise for you. May it be full of God’s presence, His grace, and an even deeper knowledge of His love for you.
I am a bit late with my New Year’s wishes, because I’ve been in the sky flying back from New Zealand for most of 2009 so far, hee, hee.
I am not sure where to start with the time at home, it really was amazing. God’s blessing was on the days there in a hundred different ways. There was time with precious family. There was endless sunshine and the bluest of skies. The summer was really stunning. There was sea and sand, and beautiful meadows, grasses parched in the yellow sun. There were coffees in garden cafes surrounded by summer blossoms, and in a converted red barn cafe down by the sea. There was ice cream on stifling afternoons down at the strawberry patch. There was the gift of our treasured nieces and nephews, their little faces full of excitement and sparkle on Christmas morning. There was one of the best New Years I can remember, simply spent at my parent’s, with Mum on the balcony in the warm breeze at midnight overlooking the sea and a stunning show of sparkling fireworks.
And so as we flew back I was filled with such thankfulness for this time, and really blessed to carry such wonderful memories home with me (other home :)). And photos :). I am hoping to put some photos up in the next little while. The photo here is of New Zealand flax, with its distinctive red flower stalks.
I am really excited about the year ahead. Personally, I feel a strong sense of God’s purpose for this year. As if new things will be birthed or will come to fruition. I could of course be way off with this, but I have this wonderful anticipation about what God is going to do. What about you? Is God leading you in a particular way in the year ahead? What are some of your hopes?
It’s so good to be back. I hope each of you is well and I so look forward to catching up here in the days and weeks ahead, God bless.
As always, your photos take my breath away.
You have such an amazing gift.
I have hope for the first time in a very long time. Nothing much has changed on the outside, but the inside feels new. It gives me a great desire for more.
I want whatever He has in store for me. Whatever.
I am also very excited about what God is going to be about this year. I know He doesn’t live in time like we do, but time is His creation and I know He cares about it and understands what it means to us. Happy New Year to you too, Birgit!
Welcome home!
I used the word fruition earlier today in the same sense of anticipation and hope for the work of God being completed this year.
Your descriptions of your trip back home were captivating. I am glad that you were able to enjoy the time.
Blessings!
Dear Hope, thank you SO much.
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Dear Michelle, Happy New Year, and what a wonderful desire, and a powerful prayer – “whatever He has in store me” – love that!
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Dear Tawny, I’m so happy for you that you are excited about what the Lord has ahead for you this year, may His blessings be upon you and your family :)
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Dear @ngie, thank you friend. I can fully understand your sense of anticipation for the year ahead, it seems that God has much in store for you and DaRonn, and your family and ministry. May His favour and blessing continue to be with you all.