It's weekend again....

Well, another working week has passed. I love my job and am grateful to work with a great bunch of people and each night on leaving work I thank my Father for my many blessings there. I also ask Him to forgive my 'wrong doings' and to help me learn and understand more about my work so that I will be a blessing and encouragement to people there and to always work as unto Him.

I then let go of situations at work and leave the day with Him. My Bible tells me that I am able to cast my burdens onto the Lord (Psalm 55 v 22) and we sing a song in church "Cast your burdens onto Jesus because He cares for you" and it's so true. Jesus tells me not to worry and so if I have any concerns about work I tell Him of them all and ask Him to help me to know what to do. His guidance never fails.

I always feel that Friday's are special. I have a special prayer on a Friday night and then work is over and the weekend is ahead.

I am fortunate to have a very blessed life and am grateful for every minute of it. I am not perfect and my circumstances are not perfect, but I do not travel this path of life alone. I have a Saviour who guides my footsteps and if I start to go off track He gently calls me back to the right place.

I don't have everything I want, but I do have what I need. I am blessed with a happy marriage, a great family, supporting and encouraging friends, good health. I have a house to live in and I flick a switch and on comes a light; I turn a tap and out shoots water - hot and cold imagin that!! I have a bed to sleep in and a garden to enjoy. I have a car to drive (although this morning it was smoking inside - the heater had gone and smoke was coming in through the air vents and the smell was awful. Thought it was going to blow up!! But it's ok now. The heater is disconnected and the car keeps delivering me where I need to go!! What a blessing). Friday's are bin days so there are binmen who come and take away my rubbish. And I could go on and on.... I am truly blessed and I don't take things for granted.

A couple of years ago we went on a mission trip to Egypt and visited a shanty town built on a rubbish dump. People lived in homes built of corrugated sheets, pieces of wood and old worn blankets. The carpet to their lounge was sand and animal droppings; their sofa was old boxes or old car seats which were obtained from the rubbish tip. There were no lights. No running water. No showers. No baths to put bubbles in. In most cases not much food and television was probably unheard of.

I have seen poverty on a grand scale and never again could I complain about my life.

My heart overflows with gratitude to my Lord. Yet I can't keep all this to myself.

Through our Lord Jesus Christ and as a couple we have fed the poor, housed the homeless and befriended people who some would have nothing to do with. We have had the privilege of seeing people come from the gutter, get saved, get healed and go on to a 'better' life.

My prayer is that God will continue to use us to reach others. We can't change anyone, but the Lord can and does - we just have to be open to Him using us.

Have a truly blessed weekend.