My daughter came into the bedroom looking a little sad. The previous day she had received two bits of news which had upset her. Firstly, she didn’t get through in a competition she entered at school. Secondly, she found out one of her friends was leaving. She had known her since nursery.
Continue reading What is your Happy place?
Words can pierce the heart. It only takes one person to say one thing and you have an open wound of worthlessness. It doesn’t matter how many compliments have gone before, words can slice you open and leave you bleeding out.
Continue reading You are loved More than you will ever know
I play a musical instrument. Currently, I am in a position in a brass band where I am required to have a lot of confidence. I sit in the principal cornet seat. (For those of you who are not musical, I basically lead the rest of the cornet section).
Continue reading Playing With Confidence (even when you dont feel it)
The current season of waiting I am in has had me contemplating. I have been thinking about the people I have in my life. This season has taught me a lot about who I have around me. Especially, in times when I have needed a friend. People who I thought would be by my side through this season have faded away. Continue reading God is in the Midst of Friendships
Sometimes when a door closes on us, we feel a bit let down. An opportunity we were waiting for that was in our grasp has been taken away. When opportunities constantly seem to pass us by, we then start to get despondent.
We don’t see in these moments the opportunities God is working out beneath our disappointments. Paul experienced a lot of closed doors when he was travelling around. They practically slammed right in his face.
That didn’t stop him from persevering on. He knew God was still close beside him, despite the disappointments he was facing. The doors closing in front of him we’re paving the way to open ones ahead. We just can’t see the open door just yet.
Take heart, friends. We experience many doors closing in our lives, and sometimes it hurts when it slams shut. We may not see what the closed door means now, but when the time is right you may see them as a blessing in the future.
There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every event under heaven. Ecclesiastes 3:1
You are reading day 31 of the Write 31 Days Challenge in conjunction with The Five Minute Friday Community. Today’s word prompt is ‘close ’.
