Life has been chock full of great milestones in the last couple of months... Two major milestones and both very happy ones. In August our second daughter, Emma Rose married Michael. It was a beautiful day from beginning to end. Relaxed, happy and very genuine. Welcome to the family Michael!
The next is the birth of our third grandchild, a beautiful grandaughter, Kiara. She looks so much like her mother did! Congratulations to Nicole & Nigel!
I have another exciting tale to tell.... I have longed for a place where I can worship, pray and study and was saving hard to convert part of our shed into such a place. I had been successful, but as you can see from this photo we had something else that was a higher priority :) "Never mind Lord" I say, "it will have to be next year". Jodie moved out and I decided that her room will be my new study. We went away for a weekend and came back to that very room totally wrecked by water as a water pipe in the ceiling had burst! Guess what? I am getting a totally new study with new everything, cupboards, curtains, carpet and paint, all compliments of insurance! It's as if the Lord saw my desire and my efforts to get this special place and said, "Now I'll just take over and provide it for you".
WHEN WE DO ALL WE CAN DO, BUT IT'S JUST NOT ENOUGH - GOD STEPS IN AND DOES EVEN BETTER THAN OUR BEST EFFORTS COULD!!
What in your life are you making your best effort for? Submit it to Him and watch Him do far more than you ever could!
This reminds me of a time at our previous church. The ladies were working hard towards getting some desperately needed carpet in our church. It was a big building and very cold on concrete floors through winter. We had saved a solid $1000 through cake stalls and offerings. Then we had some people visit our church who were ministering to the poorest of the poor in Eastern Europe. It was back in the early 90's. There was not even any panadol for pain relief in surgery. As we listened I felt the Lord lead me to give our precious $1000 to this cause. It may be uncomfortable to be on cold floors on Sunday morning, but that was nothing in the face of this need. Anyway, WHAT WE HAD WORKED HARD TO RAISE WAS NOT ENOUGH FOR THE CARPET, but it was a huge amount to these impoverished people. I consulted with the ladies, after all, they had worked towards this, and we agreed.
The very week the cheque was cashed someone gifted the money to the church for the carpet! It just proved again, that God is utterly and totally aware of what we are up to and well able to do more than we can ask or think.
May God's power and grace be piled on to your efforts, as you commit those efforts to Him!
With love,
Lynda
