First - an announcement! Our blog has a new URL - everything is still the same but we are now www.iamarete.blogspot.com
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Oh my goodness we are at the end of November 2016!! Almost seems unbelievable! I'm so grateful to God for this year, more and more He is teaching me true contentment is found in Him alone and not in any situation, good or bad. I've heard people groan and moan about this year and I sure have fallen in this category before too! Closer to home I remember when 2012 was my year because everything went my selfish way and even better!! Then 2013 was super horrible and I just wanted it to end already, as if the clock turning creates the good or bad. What I didn't know then was that nothing changes unless you change and this was always going to be the cycle of my life unless I changed! - but praise God I met Jesus in 2014! From day 1 He began to do a paradigm shift in me, what His word calls a renewing of the mind in Romans 12:2 . And so I've been learning to not be moved and led by my emotions and circumstances but this understanding continues to grow and increase the more I know Him!! Old me would have so many not so nice things to say about this year because my focus was so wrong and I was looking at it all wrong! But new me is so thrilled about the lessons and growth she has experienced this year because of the smooth and not so smooth experiences combined!!! Also.....I don't have to do life on my own, I am never on my own - I get to go through it with Jesus in 'my boat during the storms' and it is so so so beautiful! He is with me! Always! Is He with you? Like have you invited Him in?
So I know I said and thought it was video season till the end of the year but turns out it is not ☺...what it is however is time to spend more time with the Holy Spirit and at Jesus' feet and just go deeper in Him. I've got this new burning desire to know Him more and just be His girl, His daughter, His child, His lover, His disciple, His everything. I am coming to understand more that there is a time to listen, learn and share and there is also a time to just listen and I am experiencing the latter. Based on a conversation I just had with a friend, I'd like to call this a season when He is drawing me in and deeper to just minister to Him.
As the year draws to an end, I've been reading more, finally! Yaaay!! ( what I'd began the year needing to do but I didn't quite follow through). I'll end this post with sharing a couple of the books I've been reading the last couple of weeks. There are others I read earlier in the year and in between these as well but for now I'll stick to sharing just these. I won't exactly be giving a detailed review here but I'll just say : The Final Quest opened my eyes afresh!! The Screwtape Letters has me at 'Wow'. Please go find and begin Redeeming Love like now!! So much to learn from Bilquis autobiography and I am just beginning The Atonement Child and I am so expectant!
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