I realized today that the week went this year so fast.........
Maybe because i also had to work 4 days and maybe because i made long days to arrange things at home. i was extending to decorate and buying a x-mas tree and lacking to organize the household properly due to different reasons.
But praise God when i was biking early monday morning to my work : the thought crossed my mind....." Maybe you are not feeling MERRY but you are BLESSED "!!
This year a lot was taken away from me (us) physically..... emotionally ....and financially......
It started in JANUARY when my uncle and pastor of the church i attend died unexpectedly...... I was and am not sad but it was a shock and confrontation how soon your life can end......At a burial friday he got sick in the evening he went in a coma and never woke-up again....monday night he was given up......
End of FEBRUARY i got a miscarriage.........i was just startingto believe i was pregnant again.........
I believe i lived untill the summer in a kind of denial i was sad about the miscarriage......
And in-between in MAY my fathers brother was killed by robbers . He lived in Surinam but the last two years he traveled a lot up and down for health treatments and than he loved to see me and the kids and came too look the activity's what my kids did so he was like a kind of grandad for them the last two years. Because they do not see my parents bc they are not coming over frequently...
Along the way we had all kind of financial problems concerning our own business, we where close to loosing our shop ....BUT GOD did it for us friends and custumors rallied .and came up with money..........At the end of the year we have paid them all back........and we have now professional help to organize the finances.....
In AUGUST and SEPTEMBER i had a body breakdown i believe that not giving way to my emotions maked my body locked-down.I could not walked and function for some weeks and my hormones were out of control.........
But as i said in the beginning i realized in the beginning of this week .....THAT I'M BLESSED even i do not feel "MERRY"
The best part stayed......
- GOD,,JESUS CHRIST never left me even not forsaked me.
Through all the storms He said to me "BE NOT AFRAID !!
- My dh's grew so close too God this year. It started in 2007 but this year i witnessed the fruits of Gods spirit in his life..
- My kids love to talk about God. they pray and my dd love to use her voice to praise God.
How much kids nowadays are raised up without God and have other interest
-We have a place we can call our home
- We have eachother no divorce, no seperation, no sickness.....
- We life in a stable and safe country
I think i can go on and on about different kind of blessings....
I just realized i had to do yesterday thankfull thursday but i forgot......
This i will make as my THANKFULL THURSDAY.5....
1 My realization i described above why i'm blessed...
2 I did it to make an alterative tree ( If i could make a picture i would have put it)
3 For the unexpected small family gathering after church at my aunt( mothers sis) who live beside the church
4 That the kids are happy with their presents no matter they were not the requested ones....
5 I could bless the elderly while serving them on christmas.......
Like this i gave a twist to my post to tell about my week.year and even do a belated thankfull thursday still
Be blessed
Bernice
Romans 12!