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Date: 14 September 2005 08:56:53
I may be 28 and ooh, a bit, but "fishsoup" is one year old today. I realised last night when I was reading over my blog - a weird coincidence cos I don't do that very often.
I never thought I'd make it to a year - but I realised yesterday how much I've learnt doing this. About all of you who write, read and comment on this site - you're wonderful and inspiring and fascinating and godly and supportive - I value it massively, many thanks. About myself (read back yesterday - I whinge a lot, don't I?), but most of all about God and what he's trying to do with me.
Because this is a blogging site with a "Christian sort of bit" , I guess it has given me a chance to talk with myself and you and God about my faith. It's given me a place to work out my frustrations with what's going on at work, in church and with my family and friends. And, despite my whinging, the one thing I've learnt through re-reading everything yesterday is that God is SO good.
Unless you know what I'm on about most of the time (and there's no reason why you should in lots of cases), I guess you wouldn't know that this is a blog of answered prayers - of times when I have been ready to give up but God has pointed me in the right direction, of times when God has taken my grumpiest moments to give me tasks that I haven't been up to doing but which have lifted me out of myself, of times when he has put something in front of my face that should have been plain as daylight anyway and said: "look, this is what I'm doing". I've learnt to depend on Him more and to expect to see wonderful things happen in the lives of those I love.
So there you go. I'm praying for all the people I've "met" through this today, with particular thanks for those who set it up and for all of you who continually allow God to work through it. I realise this all sounds a bit serious for someone who usually writes about shoes and cooking, but blogging can be a really, really wonderful thing, even for the trivial among us.
I'm going to end by pasting in a copy of something I wrote in November about answered prayer. I don't notice often enough, but He really does. Thank you Lord.
"Quite simple, this one. I pray for someone's situation and for something to happen. It does, and I'm surprised. Why? I guess I always assume God isn't going to do what I pray for (or at least not for ages) , so when he does something truly astonishing within a matter of days I'm left more stunned than anything else. I can't quite believe it. What does that say about the state of my faith?
Still I guess Peter was a bit surprised when he walked on water - even if he did believe his mate was the Messiah and could do anything. So, Lord, it's not that I'm not grateful - I'm skipping inside over this one - and when I've got over standing here with my mouth open in an unattractive 'O' shape I'll get on with thanking you properly. "