I am excited to tell you that this blog has been going now for 7 years today!! WHOOP!!! (Insert happy meme here!) I have posted over 600 separate times during those years. The blogs have been a journey of adventure with many highs and some significantly rubbish lows.

As I look back, I can honestly say that I am so grateful to God for giving ‘someone like me’ the sticking power to carry on. I haven’t always been great at being the ‘completer/finisher’ I am today. This part of my behavioural pattern has taken some knocking into shape, let me tell you.

There have been days, months and possibly even YEARS when no-one ever seemed to read the articles I was blogging. But I felt it was right, probably even necessary, for me to carry on. I waded through grief, on line. I chatted about my lack of friends, or my struggles with worship or my inability to bend. Blogging became a channel for my angst …but also for my creative flow.

My dream of becoming a published author became reality and I am so grateful to my friend and champion, Tim Pettingale at River for all his belief in me. He gives me a great deal of freedom to put on the page the things (the many, varied and wonderful things) that God puts in my heart. Yay!!

Today it feels right to have some kind of small celebration. In the year in which my daughter is 7, it feels apt that this blog is 7 too.

Seven is the perfect number. It is used so many times in the Bible as a symbol of wholeness and solidity. So, as I take on the new challenges of this fresh year, (how is it already MARCH?) I am aware, with a grateful heart that I could not have got to this place without a serious inner makeover.

So, thank you lovely, wonderful God for all the work you do in me that no-one else sees and for helping me write, even when You were the only one reading. I love you xxx

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