Thoughts.com Blogs - it's been a while

hey,
thanks yeah, I've been away for a while. when I returned to England my car got stolen with in a week. Frustrating. That was about 2 weeks ago and I still don't have it back even though it was found the next day. What with having my house burgled I'm pretty internet-less and have had to wait for the rubbish English rain to stop before I could get to the library.
But here I am...

Apart from the night my car was taken I've somehow not been too depressed. I still have no job which is annoying to more people than just me (like my mum!) but I have started at a new church. The main thing this has given me is friends. I feel like God's giving me a chance to see that people do like me and that i can make friends and be welcomed into a Christian family and be a loved and not just loving, served and not just serving, part of that family.
I'm also reading a book by Max Lucado. Something like in the grip of grace(?) It's really good. I'm learning what I've been told for years about how I can't earn grace. IT'S FREE!!
I'm also beign challenged to see with eyes of faith. My problems are not bigger than God. My depression is not bigger than God. I'm trying to dsee myself, others and my situations through God's eyes and not my own. Through Him all things are possible.

The doctor has dropped my anti-depressants back doiwn from 2 to 1 because the extra one was making no difference to the way i was feeling. To be honest though I think the new church has had an effect on how I've felt.

At the moment then, despite the car being stolen, I'm not doing too badly. God is good , God is loving, God is a God of more than enough grace, mercy, love, etc. And I am moving forward with Him again.

In two weeks I go on a mission abroad. I'm expecting to have a huge culture shock but I want to go with eyes of faith, knowing that God is bigger than any problem and situation.