Thankfulness

Photo by Guillaume de Germain on Unsplash --- For the Day 30 prompt. Thankful for: Life: Given how many people I know who died during the course of the year, both young and old S: Who chose to accept me, warts and all T&M: Who continue to hold down the fort on the family front through what have sometimes been testing times. Books: For the opportunity to slip into them away from the world Friends: Who have stuck with me through the years Work: Which in spite of a growing sense of dissatisfaction still pays the bills. Travel: The chance to get away from it all from time to time.

I came into church on the 10th of May feeling deeply distraught, the overwhelming sense being that all was not well. Two main issues drove the sense of disjunction I felt; uncertainties around work and an inner turmoil around a decision in my personal life I had wrestled with for nearly a year. The message on the day was by Rev Charles Achonwa - one of the first things he said being about surrendering to grace. This spoke directly to where I was at the moment, as I had taken time off a month before to come up with what I felt was the perfect plan with multiple backups and redundancies but had made little progress which fed the sense of frustration I felt. ...