#reflections
One of my best
adventures was…the week we found out rising Senior Cameron’s boarding
school in Mississippi was closing. Chamberlain-Hunt had been open since 1876,
and with 2 weeks to go before school started, there were no options available
for him where we were living in Malaysia. We found a new school in 8 days. He
was enrolled at The Kings Academy in Seymour, TN in less than 2 weeks.
I learned…How
to publish a book on Amazon and other self-publishing avenues (I haven’t yet,
but am well on my way in writing one). How to ship a dog and improved my
cognitive ability with Luminosity!
I saw/knew God was
doing something when I was healed from a chronic longtime illness. I’ve not taken medication for it since
September 2014. Then I prayed for a woman with a chronic illness at church and
she told me the next week that she had been healed. The following week one of
her friends/colleagues from work told me that everyone in the office had
noticed the healing. I had to do counseling for Chinese pastors’ wives…in
Chinese. I couldn’t understand what they were sharing, and yet the Holy Spirit
gave me the words of encouragement to say to them. A very introverted older
woman in church came to speak to me about God telling her to “come in from the
cold’ and “come out of the cold” it was time to heal her protected heart, and
she was to speak to me about it.
A memorable gift was the arts group
throwing a farewell party for me. Our welcome home party at Brett Place: filled
our cupboards and condo with food and furniture. Keith & Judith
Harrington’s downsizing provided some lovely furniture for our empty place!
Something I really
enjoyed doing more of was... writing
parodies to Disney songs. Gardening. Public speaking. Seeing my short term
memory improve by using Lumosity.
I intentionally wrote letters of memories and blessing
to those I was leaving behind in Singapore. Then did my best to meet personally
with them for a meal or for coffee before our departure in November. I didn’t
get to meet with everyone, but sure enjoyed the ones I did.
I was really brave when we made renovation
decisions for our place in California from the other side of the planet. We
wanted to enjoy the decision making process since we’d never, but it needed to
get done, so we had to put a lot of faith in our contractor friend and just get
it done, even if it wasn’t 100% what we’d have chosen had we more time and were
face to face with the options!
My thoughts/prayers
often turned to Syria, teaching the next Sacred Pathways lesson with women
in Singapore, friends who fought and faced serious problems.
A Scripture passage
that meant a lot to me was…”Give thanks in all circumstances.” 1 Thess 5.
And anything in Sarah Young’s JESUS CALLING devotional book.
I’m still trying to
learn what God wants to teach me through: Tyler keeping his feelings to
himself and not sharing with those who love him. When he asked to be taken out
of Corinne’s book, and gave a window on to how badly he’d been hurt and how he
interpreted the relationship, and how he’s moved on a harder more private
person. That he cares deeply and faithfully for someone we’ve not met and he
doesn’t talk to us about her.
The strangest thing
that happened this year: My right baby toe has two scars souvenirs from
being sliced 2 times in the same month by broken tiles in my bathroom at home.
Well, and then there was our renters saying they’d cleaned out the place, but
leaving stuff in cupboards, junk on the patio, socks and private items behind
in the dresser drawers, and a car in the parking space!
The best word of
advice or encouragement I can remember is…"Rejoice always, pray
without ceasing, give thanks continuously." 1 Thess 5
One of the happiest
memories of 2014 I’d like to freeze
in my mind…that our move to Malaysia for 2014 was confirmed over and over
to have been the right thing to do. Our involvement at IBCBI (International
Baptist Church Bukit Indah), and the Davis family who were planting the church,
was a sweet mutually encouraging season for two families needing each other.
