There is a mini window of blog-writing opportunity here and I'm going to go with it. The obvious reason for not having published anything in the last couple of weeks is the busy-ness of this time of year. Yet to be totally honest, the main reason why it hasn't happened is that during this time I've had possibly one of the crappiest weeks of 2013; I really didn't want to write about it (or anything else). By Tuesday of this week I was ready to skip the next fortnight and retreat to my parents' place for Christmas- to eat their food, catch up with series 4 of Downton and possibly never return to real life.
It's not that crappy weeks are only to do with support raising. Yet when I'm in a rocky patch the question 'why on earth am I doing this?' is often close by. What I'm really thankful for is that over the past week, when I've hit hardest bumps, there have been numerous forms of encouragement- an invite to share in thanksgiving dinner, positive feedback on my work and really encouraging words from people I respect (to name just a few). When I saw the 'we've decided to support you' email on Tuesday night (the same Tuesday as mentioned above) I had to smile and say: 'Alright God, you know that I really needed that.' And so the emotional rollercoaster of support raising (+ life in general) continues. I'm really thankful for good friends right now and for a God who is much much bigger than me, this support raising thing and everything else in this world.
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