This is Sunday, January 7. I'm on NZ time but I haven't worked out how to change the date on my blog. Today, we went to a local Presbyterian church in Clevedon. My husband asked if we could go and contrary to my wanting to resist, I agreed. It was an amazing Sunday. More than I could have expected or asked for. The pastor was Canadian! It was a real answer to prayer. I felt so refreshed and alive. There was beautiful music and worship and even quiet time to pray. We sang hymns and read the Word aloud together, and even prayed the Word together. It was different and I think that was what made it so refreshing.

I've been working on my exemption from enrolment for the NZ government. I'm determined to get it done before the school year starts. Since my children are NZ citizens we are required to file for an exemption, so I thought it would be good to obey the law of the land. I've been organizing my resources and making lesson plans and it keeps getting bigger and bigger and more complex. I don't know how I'm going to get it all done, to be honest. It just seems so much to accomplish in one year.  I'm trying to integrate some of the studies and yet it still seems like more than I can get my head around. Sometimes I think it would be so much easier to send them to school. Why do we torcher ourselves?!  My boys want nothing to do with a public school so I'm going to press on and put my faith in my heavenly Father that He will go before me and lead me because I feel so blindfolded at this moment. It's "in the basket," as my sister would say... the "too hard basket"!

Thanks for your messages and prayers. Thank you, Lord, for blessing of a new year and for each one of my friends in Port Alice, Christina Lake, Tauranga, Vancouver, Abbotsford and Calgary. Thank you for the blessings they've bestowed on me, for their encouragement and love. Amen.

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