Faith.

I have not been blogging so much lately but this is about to change! I am changing jobs soon which will give me more evenings at home to blog, along with the fact my husband will be working lates, so I need something to keep me busy in the evenings when he isn't here!

I have a testimony to share about what God has been doing in me lately. I have been looking for a new job within nursing for several months and then finally, two jobs came at once that I was interested in. I applied for both and decided to see how it went. I was offered one job and was given the weekend to make the final decision, yet the second job I had applied for I had passed the first interview stage but was waiting to hear if I would get through for the actual interview. The second job was the one I really wanted but I didn't want to refuse the first job and then not get an interview for the second job because then I would have missed out on both opportunities. I spent that weekend in turmoil. Both jobs had their positives and negatives and I really didn't know what to do. Everyone kept telling me to pray but I was praying and still didn't feel any better. Anyway, the Monday morning came and going to work I still wasn't sure what decision I was going to make but for some reason saying yes to this first job didn't quite feel right, even though on paper this probably appeared to be the job that would give me the most training and varied experiences. I refused it and later that afternoon got offered an interview for the second job. What a relief! I then got offered the job and knew at once this was right, this was the job God was calling me to and I said yes!

I was praying and felt like God wasn't speaking to me but He was. It's in these times, where we're not quite sure what to do that we need to listen to those small whisperings in our spirit. Those whisperings are God. Paul and myself have learnt this the hard way. There were a few instances where we didn't listen to our spirit and things didn't turn out right. We vowed from then on to always listen to those small whisperings and have faith not only in God but in ourselves, trusting that we knew when God was speaking to us.

Luke encourages us to have faith in the small things because when the big things come we know we will have the faith that's needed to get through.

'If you are faithful in little things, you will be faithful in large ones...' Luke 16v10

Learn to hear those whisperings and learn to trust not only God, but also yourself. Believe in yourself that you know when God is speaking to you. Trust in God that He does speak to you and that He provides all that is needed in every circumstance and situation, whether small or large.

Incomplete in Absence

I've been thinking a lot lately about love and the times that Paul and myself spent apart. Just this morning I was remembering the terrible moments of visa refusals and saying goodbye at airports. Last night I got to snuggle on the sofa with my man in front of a film - pure bliss in my mind! There was this quote from the film:

'Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.'

Edmond and Jules De Goncourt.

This summed it up for me.

What is love? Love is exactly this - that feeling of incompleteness when you are without that person or that passion or that country that you hold dear to your heart.

I know that I love Paul but I also know that I love Uganda, I love nursing and I love young people. Being here in the UK is teaching me so much yet I feel somewhat incomplete. I am without one of the most important parts of my life - I am incomplete in this time of absence. I also know that if nursing or youth work was ever taken from me I would feel the same.

I am Pauls wife. I am a nurse. I am a Ugandan (at heart!).

What are your passions? Do they consume you, overpower you, take hold of everything in your life? Is your future of them and your heart overwhelmed with the love you have for them? Are you incomplete without them?

If you have passions like these, what are you doing with them? Are you pursuing them and pushing those opportunities or are you sitting back waiting for those things to just fall into place?

Life is about adventure and passion and love. Yet it is also about grabbing hold of the opportunities that surround you with both hands. It's about realising your passion and going for it. It's about saying NO to the world and YES to changing the world. It is about saying God these are my hopes and dreams and letting Him turn them into something much greater, more profound and more world changing than you could ever imagine.

Love is being incomplete without them but them also being incomplete without you. Would the world notice if you disappeared? Make it notice!!

We do family...We do LOVE..

So I saw this photo on facebook recently and just think it is brilliant! I love how all these things are wonderful, individual, important and how they all reflect LOVE.


I've decided I'd love this in my home one day and for it to portray the life I live and the home I've built.


I want my children to grow up in a home that reflects true LOVE - forgiveness, realness, mistakes - all the wonderful things that make a family.


Today chuch was about relationships and the importance of marriage. The preacher said that marriage was made to be the cure for loneliness. Someone shared their experience of singleness - those who are single are of course not meant to be lonely just because they are not married (which the preacher also emphasised). She shared about the importance of belonging whether married or single. She has a community where she belongs, a communtiy who are family to her.


I want friends and family to visit our home and know that they are family in our home, that they are LOVED. This photo represents some of the desires of my heart and some of the things I am striving for.


What do you want your home to show?