Launched!

This is my first blog written expressly for the Gift of Blessing Trust website, only launched on Friday!  At times, I have wondered what on earth I am doing taking up the post as Director of a Trust when I am so little, grieving and broken. I can only do it because God is so big and so eager to pour out his healing on and through the broken. It was an amazing blessing to be prayed for with such power and commissioned with such love.

I am hugely grateful to God and to all those people who made Friday night not only happen but filled it with love and candlelight and music and good wine and above all, welcomed the presence of God’s Spirit. How kind of God to give us Bishop Ric Thorpe and Richard Jackson as our patrons – what a blessing to start with!

Ric spoke of God’s wonderful plan that we as we receive God’s gift of blessing, we become his gift of blessing to the world he loves.  Blessing rebounds and abounds. So, although our trust title makes us sound rather too like an American TV evangelist with a private jet, we never get blessing to hoard, only to share.

I loved seeing our beautiful tree logo get its first airing and to share my prayer, that through this Trust, many would deeply root their lives in the love of God to bear everlasting fruit.