Thank you Lord!

I can't believe its 2010 already! 2009 wen't by so quick!

Like sands cascading down in an hourglass, time silently slips away, without the chance of retrieval, from almost everyone everyday. The misuse of anything as precious as time should be a crime. If someone steals your car, it would be an inconvinience but not a tragedy because you can easily acquire another. If someone snatches your wallet, it would be an annoyance but a few phone calls would salvage the majority of your concerns. But who can you call when you suffer the loss of time - and not just time, but your time? Who can afford to miss their time? I can't, can you?

So just want to take this time to thank God for all the things He has done in my life and also for our family. Looking back at 2009, i really can see God shaping me and molding me through those things that i had to go through making me stronger and more resilient now :) Thank you Lord for your favor and for your unconditional love for me :) I am sooooo blessed.

Time goes by so quick... seasons come and go, friends come and go, but you will always be there. I don't ever want to miss an opportunity when i can give back to you... living life not just for me, but as a thank you for WHO you are in my life. Thank you for planting me right were you want me.

"and he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper" Psalm 1:3

Psalm 1 says that the blessed man doesnt just grow; he is also planted. Do you realise that God plants the feet of the blessed man? Never does he "just happen". He is not a weed. He is planted at a specific time in a specific place to accomplish a divine purpose.

I have noticed that people who always move from place to place do not grow very well. The blessed man is planted! If you have been planted, you grow down before you grow up. I simply mean that God isn't concerned about how high your trunk grows. He is concerned about how deep your roots go. He knows that the real challange s to produce quality , not quantity.

So whatever you are going through right now....

Just take this time and thank Him :) This is a new season! and He has planted you for this specific time to accomplish a divine purpose :)

Happy Newyear! xox

Knocked Up

I'm 16 weeks and 5 days pregnant today! :) 
OK... so i guess that should explain why i haven't been blogging.... for the last 2/3 months i've been real sick.... morning sickness that was pretty much every day- all day.... i had to stop work for about 3 weeks cos i couldn't even get out of the house! Everything smelt and taste and felt different! something i really was not prepared for!

THE MOMENT OF TRUTH...

I will never forget the moment when i found out i was pregnant. i kinda had a lil idea that i might be pregnant... changes in my body and missing my monthly friend was sorta a hint.. so i got a home pregnancy test and it was positive! The magic blue line appeared on the test and before i knew it, i was screaming in amazement, delight and sheer panic!


in the days that followed... i then found myself making a dash for the bathroom making noises like a dog trying to get up a sharp piece of bone. that was pretty much the story for the next 10 weeks...


I remember my early weeks of pregnancy as a frenzy of bananacue (filo style fried bananas) and multiple visits to the bathroom. My whirlwind was perhaps only tempered by a new-found awe at my enlarging breasts.


But in the midst of all this activity, i stumbled on something that stopped me in my tracks. Until i did that pregnancy test, i had no clue that i had a whole new life growing inside me. BUT GOD KNEW. This new life was his secret.


His very real hand was on a very real me, tenderly shaping a new life, and i didn't even know it! How intimate! It really caught my breath then, as it still does even now....

"My frame was not hidden from you when i was made in the secret place... your eyes saw my unformed body" Psalm 139:15,16.