Growing Pains

Hey all, Hope this finds you well, I am writing to you from a beautifully snowy Cork City. We are doing good as a family, i have enjoyed spending some great time with my girls this weekend as i could not DJ in Dublin due to the bad weather, every snow cloud has a silver lining and all that.

We are growing slowly but surely and really relearning the basics of what it means to be a follower of Christ, we are convinced that God is not to pushed by what we do for Him but much rahter that we are spending time with Him and getting to know and trust Him more and more.

This is no joke as we have tried this i have realised what a control freak I am and that I like being in control of my life and doing my things my way, but God has been lovingly wrestling this from me.

Someone recently described a good relationship with Jesus as a child and father in the garden cutting the lawn, the child is "helping" by pushing His plastic lawnmower around "cutting all the grass", while Dad(jesus) is on a ride on lawnmower beside us allowing us to spend time with Him and feeling like we are very important. I love this analogy this sums up my relationship with god to a tee.

The moral here is that Jesus dosen't need us to accomplish His purposes but wants us desperately to be involved in His Kingdom work and loves when we humbly come to spend time and help.

We have also been really challenged by a story about wild geese flying over head and seeing tame geese in a pen on a farm. One of the wild geese takes it upon Himself to go and tell the tame geese that they don't have to live this way that they can soar and be free just like the wild geese. This however takes longer that expected and the tame geese although they occasionally flap their wings to see what it could be like have actually become very comfortable on the ground in their cosy environment, slowly but surely the wild goose gets comfortable too and soon he is just another tame goose looking longing into the sky but never really flying free again.

Forgive me for this little story but this really sums up our current experience in Cork, we have become very aware of how it is all to easy to become comfortable in your environment and Church etc and forget how to soar, how to be truly free, well we have decided that we are not going to be geese like this (John 10:10) watch this space....

Work is going well with good conversations about deep things starting to happen, relationship are building, enjoyed a night out recently and had great conversations about Jesus with 3 people, also got voted employee of the year which was a surprise not to sure what God is up to with that perhaps again watch this space...(linda is calling me a geek)

Linda had a great time in India, was able to see the amazing project going on out there, schooling 250 kids and met many wonderful people on the trip/team this has led to some cool possibilities for the future and perhaps something with Kenya in the pipeline, please pray for this...

Our discipleship group and the homeless ministry are a real joy at present, we are very excited as we see God moving on a weekly basis in these areas.

If you could pray for a man or woman of peace like in Luke Ch10 in my work and in the homeless ministry, so we can so the seed and let God water it and bring fruit this would be immence.

As always if you would like to chat, need an ear or a shoulder or would just like to know more, call us at any time(not literally)

Love to all from the snowy Cork, have a blessed and peaceful Christmas, Psalm 62V1.