Sue's posts with tag: flat
 Mark and I were overjoyed last night to receive notification that we will be collecting the keys to our flat on 3 Dec Mon, less than a weeks' time! Praise God as we had actually expected the date to be a little later, perhaps in the second week of Dec. My best friend Feng said she is so excited for me, that I will have a home of my own... and it is true, it does feel like a real adventure knowing that this house will be all yours, a place you bought with hard-earned money and a place to call your home. Mark and I want to start off well, this new place we will call home will prayerfully be one in which we build with love and in which God's presence will dwell, and we want to open it to be a place in which many will be blessed just by being in it, sharing fellowship, food and prayer.It's been a really exciting though tiring journey, deciding on tiles, wallpaper, toilet bowls, mirrors, you name it... almost like playing Sims on the computer, except that from Monday onwards we will get to see our concepts turning into reality.So do pray for us, that the renovation will go smoothly in the midst of all the wedding preparation. A month to go, and I'll be walking down that aisle... Thanking God for the peace that has lingered so strongly in my heart, and I know He will be in control in the weeks ahead. May our house be built on the Solid Rock. All other ground is sinking sand :).
 Well it seems some time since I've written - part of the reason is I've had no time to sit down, another part of the reason is that I really have been unable to sit down upright in a chair for the past week. Got an inexplicable pain in my lower back which began over the weekend and continued to worsen, till when I attempted to step out of the gate on Monday to go to work, my shaky legs would not carry me out the door. So I hobbled back into the house, and there I have been since... except for a "drama" visit that night to Alexandra A&E with Mark and my mum, where an x-ray could not detect what was wrong, but I will be going to a specialist tomorrow.
The doctor gave me a week of MC, and I ended up at home - very unexpectedly, and with the most unpredictable way of spending the week of my birthday, unable to stand or even sit upright without waves of pain shooting down my spine. Well, with each passing day it has gotten slowly better...till today I can finally sit up awhile to check my email and type this blog.
I have learnt very much these past two weeks that He is a God who gives and takes away. Blessed be His name! I have always thought that this was a scary verse, but then the one who said it was a godly man who had gone through many scary things - Job.
God has been so good to Mark and myself. The day we got our flat, my dearest little doggie Lady died. We had to put her to sleep as she had been suffering from fits for two days and I knew it was time for her to go. Nevertheless, I was very sad. She had been with us for the past 13 years. It still seems strange when I look out into the porch half expecting her to be there resting in the shade, but she isn't. And just a few hours before we took her to the vet to put her to sleep, we paid the first option for the flat.
It was truly a day of deep sorrow and great joy, all at the same time. And as I shared with my best friend FS, indeed it was a day of something ending and a new life beginning. We are very excited about our new flat. Can hardly believe it's ours - it really is everything I would have wanted. Overlooking the canal, not too high up a floor (I'm afraid of heights), lovely airy bedrooms and renovation mostly all done...
There have been many endings and beginnings in my life recently, and many more to come with our marriage soon. And God has been so good to provide me with many good things in the new beginnings. I think He knows I'm not very good at adapting to change. There's been so much good in the old, and because He is faithful, there will be so much good in the new. At the same time, I always ask myself - if God were to take any of these good things away, how would I respond? I am glad that for now I am still able to answer, His will be done... a very scary thought, but we are learning to approach the gifts our Heavenly Father gives us with open palms and open hearts. Blessed be Your Name, O Lord.
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