Forever, forever
We’ll honour
You, forever.
From the song “For
the Honour” by Elevation Worship
What a difference a week makes! As soon
as the month changed, our situation changed as well. I praise God for the
changes that have come about. =) The whole month of February, the weather had actually
been anything but usual! It rained quite a bit instead of the typical dry tail
end of the cold season. It was actually cool this morning, which although
welcome, was puzzling. Change is definitely in the air.
Our lives are definitely changing as well.
Eng will embark on another dream of his life. I say another because he’s
actually now in China as I write. He went there for a week of meetings. When he
turned 50 (he’s now 53), we threw a party for him where we encouraged the
guests to give (instead of material gifts) monetary gifts for his dream trip to China. It has been on his “bucket
list”, one of the activities he wants to do before going to heaven. He wants to travel there. He hopes to still use the birthday funds to go on a personal trip but
the fact that he’s now in China is amazing in itself. The Lord is good. As an
aside, he was actually bumped to the Business Class on his flight there! =)
His other dream is to own a restaurant.
A pastor from India had actually spoken into his life almost twenty years ago, The prophecy was that Eng would feed many people and not for free. Since he’d always enjoyed
cooking, neither of us had forgotten the prophetic word. We both thought it “fit”
him and it actually excited him! Furthermore, the pastor who spoke didn't know
he loved to cook! All these years, we had wondered about when there would be fulfillment.
Last Sunday, Eng was actually given the go ahead from our leadership to be
involved in the management of two eating establishments here in Chiang Mai. We
are thrilled! It is going to change our lives and we’ll be even busier but it’ll
be a great busy! The couple who owns the restaurants will be away for six
months so they need someone to manage their businesses in their absence. The
Lord had allowed that they connected with Eng a few weeks ago and we’d
been praying to know how to proceed. Now that he received his approval, we are
certain that this is the Lord’s goodness in allowing him to live out his dream.
What a blessing!
When the Lord created us, he each gave
us gifts that in our uniqueness, no one is able to do as best as we can. I
think throughout life, we search out what we love and enjoy doing and we are
blessed when we actually find out what it is and live it out. We revel and thrive
when we do what we were uniquely created to do. Eng’s been managing a finance
office for many years and he worked in a payroll office before that. Although
he’s very good with numbers and could do both those jobs, I believe he’ll love
this new venture even more. He worked in his uncle's restaurant for many years and had always had a knack for cooking. He even loves to
watch cooking shows! While some men watch football games, my husband enjoys
watching “Iron Chef”! =)
We praise the Lord for this gift of a
dream to live out. We have such an amazing God. He knows the desires of our
hearts and as we delight in Him (and sometimes even when we don’t!), He allows
us to get or meet those desires. We praise you, Lord, and thank you! You are so
GOOD! How can we not honour, and love you?
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