This is not our home

Brilliant day yesterday at The London Women’s Convention. Great teaching and wonderful singing God’s praises with 1,500 women. We were reminded that although we live here and now – this is not our home. And that truth should change how I live in the here and now. God calls us to do ordinary things in an extraordinary way. It was good to be reminded that following Jesus doesn’t protect us from trials and sufferings but we can trust that he always has a plan and that plan will be carried out. Nothings is outside the sovereign purposes of God – NOTHING. How easy it can be when trails come to turn our back on God instead of persevering. A session on prayer reminded us that it is good to get into habits because then when it gets tough (and it will) we are already in good prayer habits so that we will automatically pray. In the last session she reminded us that we don’t need to be fearful of the future – we know where we are going.

Never alone, is now our cry

In joy, in grief, in lonely sin

Never alone, for Christ is ours,

He lives in us, we live in him.

And ‘til we reach that final day

When fears are gone, cast far away

We’ll live secure, trust in his love,

Never alone, Christ is with us, He’s with us.

This week – wedding planning. Chloe comes home on Tuesday morning and that gives us 4 days to plan before she goes back. Hopefully by next weekend we will have the bones of a wedding! Then Chloe and Ed can add all the ‘detail’. It is starting to feel quite real.