Despatched!

“A trip of a lifetime! My dream trip!”, she exclaimed. My youngest daughter was deciding whether to go on a trip to the ‘Big Apple’ with a friend. Weighing up the pros and cons of traveling during these fraught times of rising Covid infections; she made her decision to go.

As you can imagine, my mother’s heart was concerned, to say the least. So many what-ifs came to mind that it felt as though I was at a pitcher’s mound with a never-ending volley of balls being fast-balled to me pitched by Aroldis Chapman.

The week that my daughter made up her mind to go was the week that I read again, Psalms 91 in Scripture. I read those well-known verses as though reading them for the first time, and it was verse 11 that really stood out to me this time and truly resonated with me. ‘For He shall give His angels charge over you, To keep you in all your ways.’ I comprehended as never before, that God, himself, despatches His angels to watch over us, protect us and look after us. What a merciful and loving God!

Throughout my daughter’s trip, I read over and over the precious verses in Psalms 91 and claimed them as promises for my daughter. She returned safely to the UK with memories and experiences that she will remember for a lifetime.

I, too, have had an experience that will stay with me for the rest of my life: a lesson in trust.

Throughout the year 2021, we have experienced challenges, setbacks, and losses. We have also experienced moments of joy and opportunities which have bettered our lives. We look back on this year and can see where God has shielded us, guided us, kept us, sustained us, protected us, guarded us, helped us.

Looking back, I can be thankful that I have had good friends who I have been able to call on, share with, cry with and pray with. Shout out especially, to my second mum, Aunty B!

As we look forward to a new year - we do not know what we can expect. However, we know, if we trust and believe, that God can and will continue to despatch His angels to ‘keep us in all our ways.’

Learning to let go and let God, learning to trust, learning to lean back in His everlasting arms is what each of us can do in 2022.

My prayer for each of us is that we will experience God’s faithfulness, His grace, love, and mercy like never before as we learn to let Him guide us, lead us, and show us the path that we should tread as we go forward into a new year. Believing that He has sent His angels to retain watch over us, to keep us in all our ways.

Despatched!

Until next time.

Love & Blessings for the new year.

xx