My Spiritual Journey

Oh wow! What a book! The tag line (is that what it's called?) that's under the title reads 'Daring to do what God calls you to do' and this is what I was really focusing on when I read this book.  The ideas that the husband and I have about our future ministry are a bit woolly at the moment so we're spending the next few years refining and getting prepared for what God has planned for us. Well, what we think God has planned for us. So far, He is slotting things into place but it's often hard to distinguish between what is our idea and what is His. What we feel we're being led to do is also going to take a massive leap of faith and this book has been so helpful.  A few things stood out for me: - God makes each of us specifically for a good purpose to be worked out in our time on earth and He equips us to do those things for which He created us.  - What is impossible with people is possible with God. We just have to believe that He has called us to go into th

I've just finished reading 'Two Weeks' by Karen Kingsbury. She's a Christian fiction writer and I only discovered her when I had a gift voucher to spend at our local Christian bookshop. In the last few months I've read seven of her novels and I plan to read more.  I'm finding it really refreshing to read a novel where the characters are Christians and their love of Jesus is threaded through their stories. In so many novels, when the main characters are going through their trials and tribulations, they all try to solve their own problems in their own way. Finishing 'Two Weeks' today really made me reflect on what the main characters do when faced with their own trials and tribulations (they have enough of them!) and that's to immediately turn to prayer. It's their first response. I bet that's Karen Kingsbury's first response too. It's not often mine. My first response when faced with a problem is to consider what I need to do to fix it