Its Monday, mid term is over, the weather has decided it isn't yet Spring and the girls have all headed back to university, so it's just me and the dog who, tired after all the exhilaration of having her favourites around, is flat out sleeping on one of their beds. It would be so tempting to join her, pull up the duvet and ignore the list of things to be done.
I have been reading about Joseph lately , he must have had a few duvet days, days when it would just have been easier to give up.
Left in prison for two years, ignored by Pharaoh, forgotten by those he had helped, left in the wilderness.
Maybe this rather dank February day can feel a bit like the wilderness. But a line from Jane Williams sticks in my head this week , "a silent God is not an absent God."
Joseph was to find that God was working in all sorts of ways to change things completely, a walk around the garden on this gloomy day reveals bulbs coming through, buds on the trees, the promise that God is there. Sometimes when God seems most quiet it is a time for us to listen, to be silent, to hold onto his promises and to wait.
From prison to ..." Pharaoh said to Joseph,'I hereby put you in charge of the whole land of Egypt."
Better is to come if we leave it in God's hands.
I have been reading about Joseph lately , he must have had a few duvet days, days when it would just have been easier to give up.
Left in prison for two years, ignored by Pharaoh, forgotten by those he had helped, left in the wilderness.
Maybe this rather dank February day can feel a bit like the wilderness. But a line from Jane Williams sticks in my head this week , "a silent God is not an absent God."
Joseph was to find that God was working in all sorts of ways to change things completely, a walk around the garden on this gloomy day reveals bulbs coming through, buds on the trees, the promise that God is there. Sometimes when God seems most quiet it is a time for us to listen, to be silent, to hold onto his promises and to wait.
From prison to ..." Pharaoh said to Joseph,'I hereby put you in charge of the whole land of Egypt."
Better is to come if we leave it in God's hands.
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