Friday afternoon I caught up with Becky and Becky, two wonderful individuals that I have missed working with. It was great to catch up on what God was doing in our lives, what peoples futre plans were … and before we knew it nearly 3 hours had zipped by. Chatting over coffee/hot chocolate/tea was such a great experience, and I hope we don’t wait over a year before we manage to do that again. Sounds twee but it really was a real blessing to spend time with Bex and Becky! Blessing 1! (I was going to say something here about their engagement but that would be unfair!)

Friday night I collected the children from the SPLAT party. This was amazing and the children and parents were obviously very excited by what was going on. To see real joy on faces of people coming into contact with God throuhg the church was fantastic. Blessing 2!

Saturday was my big day! This was the day when the missiion assignment needed to be finished as the deadline was Monday evening and I knew Sunday was out for doing anything serious and Monday I am in Basingstoke all day. Just before leaving for football I finished my conclusion – the ense of relief was amazing. Blessing 3!

Saturday afternoon: Gillingham 2 Blackpool 1! Blessing 4!

During football and seeing Abby happily growing with child and excitement of Dad to be Malcolm. Blessing 5!

Sunday morning in church hearing from Chris how great Tom is, how talented he is andhow helpful and caring he can be. He has a real knack for being able to start conversations with anyone. Blessing 6!

Marvelling at sarah and Joe leading the SPLAT service in church today. Blessing 7!

Having lunch in the local curry house after church with 30 people on one long table. Catching up with people over curry that we have not really properly chatted with in weeks. Having an adults ‘end’ childrens ‘end’ and listening to them singing ‘Amarillo’ and ‘When the Gills go up!’ Church & Curry! – Blessing 8!

Sitting with a loving family and chilling watching Gremlins 2. Blessing 9!

Sarah. Blessing 10!

Wow – what a weekend. It’s amazing, when you look for blessings you see them all over the place. I’ve just sat for 10 mins and written these while reflecting on the weekend. All are easily missed as ‘general life events’ yet in reality these are God’s blessings to us.We need to look more and to reflect more so that we notice more. Not doing so can result in a life of missed things to give thanks for!