Goodbye 2016

Well Christmas is done and I hope you had a fabulous time with family and friends.  As the year draws to a close I have a special prayer I want to share with you:

2016 has come and gone and the memories will linger on
If this year has brought pain through mourning and grief
I pray that in 2017 God will turn your mourning into dancing
If the year has brought you heart ache with a loss of relationship
May God bless you in the New Year with new relationships to strengthen your walk
If this year has brought sadness
May you know peace and joy
If the year has brought financial loss
May you know prosperity the way God meant it to be
If the year has been wrought with sickness
May God bless you with healing and good health
If the year has been riddled with weakness
May you know strength in every way
However if this year has brought you health, joy, peace, strength,wisdom and blessing
May you know all these and more in far greater abundance in the year to come!

Happy New year and all the best for 2017!!!!!!

Celebrate and remember

So the holiday season is well under way. I have reached the end of my first week of leave but unfortunately I will have to be back at work for one week before taking the Christmas week off. The break was necessitated by my nephew Daniels 21^st birthday which we celebrated on Monday. It was wonderful to be able to sing happy birthday to him in person this year.

21^st birthday's are always such a wonderful time to reflect and reminisce. I remember all to well seeing him on the day he was born, he was so small and cute. I remember the wonderful times playing with him in the back yard of their home in Roodepoort and oddly one of his first words was, “Outside.”

As the year draws to a close it is always time to reflect on the year that has passed. Sadly Honey's passing was a painful event to deal with but there are other good things to remember and treasure like Topaz arrival amongst other things.

We should never fail to take time to reflect and remember as year draws to a close. It helps us to put life into greater perspective and to know that whether the year has been good or bad, God has been with us all the way.

Mint deep

Well the weekend was uneventful, that is except for the bi-annual mint culling taking place. Mint culling? Yip, I pull out every tiny piece of mint out of the clivia bed that I can see........and there in lies the secret. Why do I take out every piece that I can see? Because the real mint roots are much deeper in the ground and the surface stalks and leaves are just the surface pieces.

Mint survives and thrives but making use of two propagating methods. It spreads roots under ground and the stalks and leaves on top can also become roots if that stalk hits the ground and the plant senses that by putting roots down it will obtain a ground holding position.

That should be a lesson to us in our faith.....we should have deep roots under ground and we should be able to make roots on the surface where they are required to cement our position and help us gain ground.

That speaks to me about having tenacity and courage to stand your ground. Sometimes you can face impossible odds but if you are rooted and grounded in your faith, you will not be moved by the circumstances.