Friday, September 27, 2013

Restless Pilgrims





Its been a bit of a whirlwind of a few months. Those of you who know us well will know that we gave birth to a baby girl, Kora Joy a few months ago! Its been been an amazing and bewildering time adjusting to being full time parents, we are loving being a family! In other news, Mark left his position with the Boaz Trust last week. He doesn't have another job to step into at the moment, but we believe that God has been preparing us for this for some time - whilst a very rewarding job with a truly gospel centred organisation, we have been sensing Gods preparation for a release from this position for almost a year. So we have taken a leap of faith! At the moment that means taking a temporary position for a year and taking some time out to discern where God might be leading.

We continue to feel a senses of restlessness, a dissatisfaction with the status quo. It does feel like God has been and is continuing to prepare us for a major shift in our ministry focus over the last few years. So we have taken an intentional step to take some time out to really discern what this might look. Although these feelings of restlesness can be deeply frustrating, we have come to realise that there is such a thing as a holy restlesness, an uneasiness if you like with just accepting how things seem to be. It can also redeeming though. It takes you to a place of non-conformity and non-complacency, keeps you on edge... it helps you search for something deeper and more true. God has already revealed a lot to us over the past few years of this journey.There are no magic answers, just as we step out in faith each time the Lord reveals a little more to us!

To be honest, we're not completely sure where God is leading. We have some ideas but nothing concrete at the moment. As St. Augustine once said ' Our heart is restless until it rests in you Lord.' The idea is to be quite serious over the next few months about doing some things that will help draw us closer to God and continue to discern his will and really discover why God might be trying so hard to get our attention. Please continue to pray for us as the Lord leads us on this journey. it feels like an exciting time for our little family right now!

1 comment:

  1. Can't wait to see where God leads you. Just enough light for one step at a time, right?

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