The Year of Change

Change has been the dominant word in my mind ever since the year 2010 went into labour to bring forth this New Year and up to today. Every year I like to set the theme for myself and review my goals and priorities, speaking of which I still have to re-work my mission statement.

The Lord has many ways of grabbing ones attention. On my first Sunday service at my church on the 7th of January I was unusually early, since previously I had been in the habit of running inside church after the praise and worship session had long began and it was the norm for me to try and look for space to squeeze myself in way after most of the people had settled, I used to say its praise and worship in the matatu and the sermon in church. So this Sunday I was particularly early as I was looking for a Bible study group to join and the groups meet one hour prior to the service.

After I failed to spot a group I found myself wondering inside the church about 10minutes to the start of the service, Praise God! I selected a nice comfortable place to sit and made myself comfortable, I then took my brochure and started reading the pastor’s word and theme for the year, in big caps there it was ‘The Year of Re-Creation’.

I couldn’t believe what I was reading, was I not declaring mine as the year of change, how did the two seem like they were coinciding? What was happening to me? What was God trying to say to me? As I pondered over all those, and what had been happening in my life of late I found myself crying, feeling totally broken and beaten and soon as I was struggling to dry my tears as people had started streaming inside church.

Change is one of the hardest thing to go through and most of the time I find myself falling back to where I had purposed not to go back to. There numerous areas of my life that I would like to see a change in, places that I would love for God to come and occupy but I now know better. For anything to change in me I have to completely obey what He says in His word and I have to surrender to him for God to do his work.

The 2010 Highlights

The lights are out for the year 2010, I sit back today and analyse the year that has been and see how to shape up the new year to be even better than this one.

Today I would like to list down some of the things that made year 2010 memorable before getting down to put down the vision for 2011. Of course there some things that I would wish to see in my list of highlights but unfortunately things didn’t work out as I anticipated but I have hope that I will realise them this with God’s favour at His appointed time.

Not in any order, some are:
1. Travelling and the maiden trip out of Africa
2. The accident that I and my family survived – never felt God so much in control as I did then
3. Great achievement and success at work
4. Being featured in the 'Growing talent: youth in agriculture' blog series
5. Better working terms
6. Moving to a bigger house
7. Watching the Lord restore what the devil stole
8. Maintaining good friends and establishing new friendships
9. Finishing my course work
10. My birthday party and sharing cake with my friends
11. Being baptised again
12. Becoming a member of Parklands Baptist Church

Many more random ones...

I will forge on with the hope of a better tomorrow and a gracious heart because I believe that each and every new day is a miracle and a blessing from God in itself.