Pilgrim's Ponderings

It was a long two days. At 7am on Wednesday morning Emily and I rushed to the hospital to admit her for the delivery of our baby. It was a long 12 and half hour labour and after a lot of pain (all of which she went through) we had our gorgeous little Lana. A day later when they wanted to discharge us we had all the paperwork done and all the sign offs from the doctors that were needed. I went to make the payment and was really eager to get home and back to our son as well. That’s when it happened! The first ICICI card I gave didn’t work. So I gave a second one and that didn’t work either. I was getting quite exasperated by now and as a last effort I  gave Emily’s UK card, and that was rejected as well. They tried a few other machines and nothing seemed to work. I was so annoyed and found out where the nearest ATM was and proceeded to drive there. All the while in my mind I will admit I was grumbling to God… something about a last hurdle before finally heading home. When I rea...

The week leading up to my birthday is always a pensive one. It becomes a time to look back and do a lot of soul searching about the present. This last year has been a busy one on a lot of fronts. It has been a year where, as a family we have seen many needs left unmet and yet many other needs being amazingly taken care of. It has been a year where I encountered the untimely and unfortunate deaths of friends and yet a year spent praying for the new life in Emily’s womb that God gifted us with; a year of tiredness and yet a year of energy, a year of ending a few things and year of new beginnings; a year of failures and a year of successes. As I look book on what has been, the one thing that was assured and constant throughout was the incredible hand and presence of God on my every day. For that, I am and will always be thankful.