Don't doubt in the dark what you have seen in the light

On Sunday I was reminded how often we 'forget' ..I know how often I forget that's for certain. Personally I am referring to Gods promises, the good things he has done for me and all the hope that I have. Oh its easy to remember these and 'rejoice' over these things when the going is good, when lifes path is smooth, but the moment I hit that bump in the path, or enter that tunnel I seem to loose grasp of everything I know. I am a bit of a stress head at times, I think it comes with being so anal :-) I like to know the ins and outs of everything and I just HAVE to know how things will pan out. Sometimes I look too far ahead, not good when having a son with a  progressive illness, but I just need to know. But what I NEED to sometimes is take a step back and remember. So when life gets a little bit crazy and a little bit fraught, when I am in a tunnel rather than on a mountain dancing, I need to listen to that still small voice of calm ..yep within this manic red haired girl, there is one, and I need to remember the promises and the hope.

I did this this morning in the car, I shut out the craziness of the traffic announcements, the radio ads and the general noise, I didn't check Facebook when stuck in traffic. I just sang and during that 30 minute commute into work I remembered God, the lover of my soul, who has set me on a solid rock, up and out of the crappy clay!!

Ah I will still use my lists, my excel sheets and my google calendar to keep my life organised, probably much to my husbands dismay, but I will learn that above all things, above the greatest organisational tools I can use I have someone in control, who has promised me more finances than my excel sheet shows, more time than my calendar allows and more hope and promise than anyone can ever deliver.

Take some time..remember  and don't ever doubt in the dark what has been seen in the light.
oh and one last thing, in the storm always look for the rainbow and in the dark look for the stars......

SO!!! here I am a blogger!! I have absolutely no idea what I am doing, or what I am going to write apart from my Blog title which is Me, God and the olive tree. What on earth does that even mean? Well it was a sentence that came into my head one very hot and sunny evening whilst I was holidaying on a Greek Island this year. Sat outside our apartment reflecting on my life, as you do, pondering on the greatness of Gods grace, thinking of all the things that had happened and how things had changed. whilst considering all of this I was scared..scared I would loose that intimacy that God and I had built up, I just wanted to sit there in the presence of God..hence Me God and the Olive tree..


So from very humble and simple beginnings the blog is born.