Shifting

Life is changing so rapidly around me lately that I find it hard to keep up sometimes. I feel like everythings settled and relaxed and then every now and then one thing happens that makes me realise things are different to how I thought they were. It's not anything big or bad, just little comfy things that I'd gotten used to have changed. I guess I haven't really settled into the flat or neighbourhood properly yet (though decorating, church and work are helping with that), but Geoff and me haven't fully set up all our little routines yet. We're still trying things out.

I've started my new job and am in training, but I haven't gone into my team yet and going downstairs and actually doing the job I'm finding unsettling. I'm finding the changes we're making around the home a bit unsettling as although in a right necesary, I'd gotten used to the flat in it's decrepit state while being here all day for 10 weeks solid. I'm really glad that we are doing it up, and it does feel more like ours for doing it, which is comforting, but the same time, unsettling.

I'm finding it frustrating that even though a full 3 months after my operation I'm still not near full fitness.

I'm trying to diet, and although I'm pleased my bodys changing it's just another thing thats changing.

There are so many other things going on too some of which are far more serious and I just don't know where it's all going.

It's just dawned on me that I'm feeling unsettled because I'm placing my faith in the wrong place again. I'm a banana.

Prayer request

Hi everyone,

Would really appreciate anybody who reads this, could they pray for my 15 year old cousin Stephanie. From what I can make of her, she's a girl who's scared, lost, doesn't know who she is and has so much crap that has gone on in her life she doesn't know what's what anymore (if she ever knew in the first place). She really needs a lot of loving into a different place in her life, because I know she can have better.

Thanks,

Jenna
xxx

Connecting

Hi,

Geoff and me have started going to a new church near where we're living in Ipswich and I think after the break we've had from church and everything that's happened inbetween, I'm just enjoying the niceness of being in fellowship with some other Christians again. It's going to take a while to get to know everyone and find our place in the church and find out what the church is about, but I'm just enjoying being part of that family again.

I've been thinking about fellowship and how it is an important part of Christian life. I mean we're all supposed to be part of one body and how can we really be that if we're completely disconnected from the rest of the body? In this, I also recognise that it's important for each individual church unit to be in fellowship with other churches so that we are all really connected.

At the same time as being in fellowship with each other, we need to be connecting with Jesus the head of our church. The brain sends signals to the rest of the body to tell it what to do and if we're not connected to Jesus, we're not going to know what it is He has for us to do.

It feels really good to be in church again, to meet with other people to worship, pray, receive teaching, to be strenghtened and encouraged. I'm looking forward to getting more involved.