Cold place to be

The house is a cold place to be as the heating has decided that it does
not want to work properly right now! I think it may be warmer in the
garden right now.

Had a really encouraging email today from an old friend (Hairs) who
said that my blog is quite deep. If you knew me you would know that
that is the last thing most people would say about me!

It got me thinking and reading back on what I have already written on
this blog. I see that I am still on this journey of faith even though
there have been times recently where I thought I had given up. Just a
few week ago I hit another one of those walls where everything seems
useless and God seems so far away and you get stuck in that hole of 'I
have not spoken to God in so long that I can't stat now!'

Thankfully again God has helped me out of that hole. still some days I
slip back in a bit, but He has my hand. I have had a couple of verses
that have kept me sain recently Romans 12:12, By joyful in hope,
patient in affliction and faithful in prayer. Right now there do not
seem to be more true words to try and live by. The other is the story
of where Jesus turned water into wine (John 2), it is a story that I
have heard so many times but I have never seen what I see now, before!

This is how I see it....

Jesus is asked by his mum (Mary) to sort out some more wine (she
obvisouly liked a tipple!), he says it is not time for him yet, but she
tells the catering staff to do as he says.

So Jesus gets them to fill these huge jugs/barrels (they seem to be
small swimming pools) with water. Then he gets them to take a normal
sized jug of the water to the wine taster. He checks it out and says
that is ab fab! Wine taster asks the bridegroom why he left the best
wine till last!

Now that i have retold it I will now tell you what i got from this!

mary had the faith to ask Jesus to help her enjoy the wedding/life
Jesus could have said, no I am not making any wine, but instead he made
the best wine and loads of it! He wants us to enjoy life and life to
the full. So often I feel that Christians do
not like to have to much fun as they feel that would be wrong because
Christianity is all about persecution.

God made the world and he made life and he wants us to enjoy it, and
when we are having a hard time he wants us to live as Paul did when he
wrote to the church in Rome!

This story has uplifted me and has helped me to remember how much God
loves me and wants the best for me, even though I choose wrong each
day.