Looking Back

Do you kick yourself sometimes after you have said something?


I have been regretting something I said last week. Nothing mean or insulting to anyone. Just something expressed at the wrong time and in the wrong setting, with the wrong attitude.


As some of you know we immigrated here to Canada in 2010. We were very excited and looking forward to achieving some life long dreams we had.


Then God got involved and things changed... dramatically!


We could only sell half of Papa Bear's business before we came here. It meant we had a drop in income of about two-thirds and a business to run on the other side of the world. It was hard... very hard! It still is.


Then we ran into some unexpected issues and God began to ask us to walk through some very tough days. At this time God also asked Papa Bear to enter Divinity College, way outside of our comfort zones. Papa Bear loves to learn, but Divinity College? Surely God had this one wrong!


Papa Bear is now half way through his Master of Arts in Theology and is a pastor of a church. If God had indicated just a tiny bit of where He was taking us when we left New Zealand I think we would have talked Him out of it. "Let's stay right where we are, God has blessed us here!"


This is where what I said last week was not so great.


I practically had a whine about following God. Following Him anywhere, anytime, anyplace.


We were being encouraged to put God first and all I could say was how hard that can be. How terrifying in reality that is. We followed God and we lost everything that we took for granted, everything we felt God had blessed us with.


And that is what I am ashamed of.


Looking back just like Lot's wife did.


What I needed to do was look forward. Look at how much closer we are as a family to God. Look at how much God has carried us through. Look at the adventure God is taking us on.


Just simply, LOOK AT GOD!




Mumzy