Category: God

This week I’m worrying. I’m worrying about my baby and about how I’m going to do well enough by him, and even if I’ve done well enough so far. I went for a 28 week growth scan earlier this week, to check baby is growing OK. And it was OK – a bit rushed and certainly not the same magical experience of our 20 week scan (when we went in feeling scared and came out on cloud 9), and a few things of minor concern that that they want to keep an eye on.

So we’re hoping that everything will be fine and that there isn’t really anything to worry about. But in the meantime I’m learning that my hormones mean I now don’t cope well at all with the unknown. Continue reading “Turning to God in the good times”

Have you ever asked God what His plan is for your life?  How you fit into the bigger picture?  What He’s got in mind for you?  I certainly have.  I’ve pestered Him endlessly for an answer to those questions, asking Him what I should be doing, when He’s going to reveal it for me so that I can stop doing whatever it is I do now and start my work for God.  I’ve become frustrated that He doesn’t seem to want to reveal it to me, and I’ve felt like I’m wasting time waiting when I’m ready to make a start.  Does that sound familiar to you?

A couple of years ago, many of my walks with God would be a chance for me to berate Him for not giving me some glimpse of what He had in mind.  I was sure there was something more and I really wanted to know what that was.  But actually, I was ignoring my present day.  I couldn’t see what God was doing today because I was too busy asking Him what he’d have for me tomorrow. Continue reading “The Purpose of Today”