Life's ebb and flows

Hi bloggersphere,

It's been a while since I last posted. Lots and not much has happened as of late. My husband and I live in another remote Indigenous community but we will be leaving soon...


I'm in the process of searching the digital nomadic lifestyle in hopes I come across something I can sink my teeth into that will lead to us no longer being tied down to one place and allow us the freedom to indulge in one of my favourite passions..... TRAVEL! I would love to Travel the world sharing the love of Jesus with my husband. Oh yeah, things are fantastic on the marriage front these days! Praise God and Hallelujah!! Only possible with The Lord right!?! It's strange because the past events are no longer a contributing factor in our day to day lives. I barely think about it. Like a whole other person it happened to.

I've been thinking about possibly opening myself up to the online marriage coach area of expertise all though it's all owed to the glory of The Lord and His willingness to heal us. What do you think? I can't make up my mind whether to use our story to fuel financial freedom and helping others in the process or go another route like, becoming a travel agent.... Seriously, my mind is all over the place. God did give me the vision of being Christian Marriage Counsellors so, it's probably safe to stick with God on this one right!?!

I know our experiences make us qualified in the area but do you think we should get a Christian counselling qualification to authenticate it? I'm not sure.... Both my husband and I have a qualification in community services that is equivalent to that of a Pastoral qualification but I think I'd rather it be titled that instead of community services.

If we got this thing up and running, we were thinking of running marriage retreats as well... What do you think? Going to some exotic location with others like you who are struggling in their marriage and being supported by us who have been in your shoes whilst allowing God to lead? It sounds pretty good to me.

Anyway, I will be posting a variety of things such as travel, marriage, food and work on this page or a new one.... Not sure yet. I feel as if I'm in a new season and I need a new blog title to kick it off with. This blog will still exist as a point of reference but we are new creations so I think we may go the new route.

Keep you posted!
Thriving Future Marriage Coach Ahead!

He Is Risen

Thank you Jesus for all that you have done for me.

Thank you Jesus for restoring what the locust had eaten from my marriage.

Thank you Jesus that I am a new creation and so is my husband.

Thank you Jesus that you restored me back to The Father.

Thank you Jesus for your many blessings that you have and will pour out on my life.

Thank you Jesus!

Acknowledging Jesus on my birthday

I am only able to celebrate my life because of the price Jesus paid for me and my sins around this time of year, 2016 years ago. All though I celebrate my earthly birth today, I was born into sin but Jesus set me free from all of that through his acts of selfless love when he was beaten, marred beyond recognition, crucified and then beat sickness, sin and death when he rose again. I've been made a new creation. I've been sanctified through His acts of love. I am no longer the old me, and my true birthday is more like June 2007 when I chose to give my life to the one true God, my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Thank you Jesus for paying the ultimate punishment for my iniquities and removing the debt that was hanging over my head. That is the best birthday present anyone could ever receive! I love you Lord!

So blessed!

Happy Birthday To My Dearest

A beautiful birthday message from my husband that I want to be able to look back on for years to come.

"On a weekend where we get to celebrate the life, reflect on the death, and glorify the Resurrection of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, I want to take today 26th of March to also honour my wife who has been blessed to be on this earth for the last 29 years. I have only been blessed to know her for a small portion of that but if God is willing, I will see the day that I can say I have known her for the majority of her life. There is not much more I can tell FB about her. You already know she is the biggest part of my life after Jesus. There is nothing or no one that can come between us so don't even try. Been there, done that and guess what? We are still here. The world couldn't break us. The devil himself could not break us. My own weaknesses and frailty did not stop her from loving me and walking with me through darkness. WE ARE STILL HERE!!! This beautiful woman of God is one of the reasons why I know God is real and that He blesses the undeserving. He lifts up the broken. He heals hearts. And He quite often likes to use us to do it just to glorify Him. I love you, Booby! Keep being a light in the darkness. Keep reflecting the glory of our loving Father in the mighty name of Jesus. And also have a very, very, very Happy Birthday. ‪#‎StillHere ‪#‎CantStopWontStop"

Restoration

Praise God for restoration in our marriage!

The devil had come in recently and stirred the pot in our relationship, whispering his rubbish in our ears and sadly I believed him. I allowed his voice to echo some of the past hurts and bring it all rushing back to the surface. After calming down and spending some deep, quality time with my Heavenly Father in prayer and then talking to my husband I was able to process and find out what really was happening with him and temptation. He explained that he had not looked at porn, he had not been looking at pictures or anything however, it was a post in our newsfeed that mentioned something like "200 pound woman loses weight, see her now" and usually that wouldn't have even made him think to go and have a look. Well, this time he did but Holy Spirit spoke very clearly to him and he was able to catch it before it became anything. It's not that he's caught up in sin but he's noticed the need to not get complacent with the battle. Thank you Jesus for the clarification and removing the scales that were temporarily over my eyes.

Also, beyond that both of us have been sick with the flu and so the enemy has just been trying to attack us from every which away. Well, devil and your demons BACK OFF IN JESUS NAME, you have no right and no authority over our lives because WE are children of God.

The one thing that was amazing through this journey is that it led me to be more deliberate in praying over our marriage and my husband regularly. I had become complacent in this area. It wasn't a regular occurrence anymore as the years had gone by and the healing took place. So, I'm actually thankful for this little slip up as it keeps us on our toes, reminding us to never get too comfortable.

It also brought to the surface some of my own personal struggles around self image and my identity being firmly grounded in Jesus so that's my area of focus that The Lord continues to help me in this area.

I love my husband and he loves me. I know that I know that I know, that he has Jesus front and centre in his life. Thank you Jesus!

Signing Off,

No longer a slave to sin!