New Year Blessings

A BLESSED NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE WHO VISITS


I cannot believe that I have been blogging for a year this month and have clocked up 210 posts. It feels like I have only just got started. Well I guess I have really when I think of all I want to blog about.

I do want to thank everyone who has visited me and left comments over the year, especially for my 48th anniversary post. I so appreciate all your best wishes.
Let me say it has not been 48 years of peace and bliss.
We have been through wonderful times and traumatic times
and in the end it is our faith in God that has brought us through

I am overwhelmed at the response to My Story and your comments are what encourages me to keep writing. If just one person is helped by my experiences then it makes it all worthwhile.
I have been especially encouraged by the E-mails of those who have found my blog through searches on Google and have been helped through reading my story.

I very much appreciated all those who responded and shared their Christmas Day with me. It is such fun seeing what others are doing around the world, so thank you.
I have so enjoyed reading your blogs too
throughout the year

I am aware that I have still not finished my Cotswolds posting but I plan to do this soon
I also promised to do a couple of posts on Winston Churchill’s homes and I have not forgotten. I will get to this as soon as I can too.

So, what’s next? New Year’s Eve I guess
How did you spend yours, I would love to know.

Over the years we have spent ours in many different ways
Parties in our home, parties at church, parties at friend’s homes, midnight services, fireworks displays over London
and sometimes at home quietly on our own watching a film

This year I think was the best
We went next door and had a lovely meal along with 26 neighbours/friends from my street, after which we spent the rest of the evening in praise and worship and prayer, seeking God for the year ahead. Number 8 is the number of new beginnings and that was very significant.

The presence of God was tangible and awesome.

Some of the folk present were going through the most painful and difficult time in their lives and as we joined hands at midnight and praised God for His faithfulness no matter what, there was a renewed sense of unity and purpose.

When we got home we watched a one and a quarter million pound firework display on The River Thames that we had videoed earlier on TV

I know I am privileged and blessed
but I did no get here through my own effort but by the Grace of God who has taken me on a journey of a lifetime, often painful and traumatic but never without His abiding presence.