My chicks!

Today we are having an unexpected lunch with the chicks. Chloe and Ed are here for the weekend and Josh and Debs are popping in for lunch - lovely. My favourite thing is to have all my chicks together - there will be lots of noise and laughter I am sure.On Sunday I am going to an early performance of dancing on ice the professionals with some of my girlies.

This week has been good - I am slowly learning to be content! It is something that doesn't happen overnight and involves a change in my thinking. We spend so much of our time striving, being busy filling every second with activity. So having to slow down and take time to rest goes against every fibre of my being. But I am learning - looking at the calendar and planning my time more carefully. Learning to say no to things which will take up too much energy or doesn't give me time to rest in between. I am also having to learn to deal with the guilt that brings - saying no is hard. Paul is helping and telling me when I need to say no and when I need to make good choices. I think it will take a while to get this right.

One of the good things about rest is it does give me time to think! Which is good because we have been tackling GRACE in our bible studies recently. That takes some thinking about. Grace is the undeserved favour of God - and I think it is mind blowing. It turns everything on its head once you understand that you can't earn God's love - nothing you do can make you worthy of him loving you. Absolutely nothing! No amount of being good, no amount of bible study or prayer or selfless acts, NOTHING. How freeing is that. It means that there needs to be no guilt. Because it is all about Him and not about me. Then when I act it is because I do so in response to that love, because of the relationship. That takes some thinking about! Good job I have time!

This week brings exams for my boy, coffee with friends, planting up my baskets and pots, bible study, tutoring, planning for Chelsea, we are going on 22nd May and wonderfully Kit is coming with us. (How exciting!) and of course plenty of rest!