Never thought I'd end up here but here I am!

I never thought I would end up where I am right now but lots of things seem to be really coming together for me of late. So in July I moved back to London after spending a year living in beautiful Cornwall and in September I found myself living in New Cross with close friends from Uni. What a contrast coming from sunny, surfing, chilled-out Cornish ways, back to busy graduate life and the uber-trendy land of Goldsmithians.

Launching out of my Relay Christian bubble and into adult working life has been hard, but it's been good. This is gonna be a long post, but here's where I'm at and here's what God's been doing:

• After spending three months on the unemployment line applying for jobs left, right and centre, I took a step of faith and moved in to lovely house with lovely friends not knowing how I could afford to live...a week later I had a job working as a Teaching Assistant! Working with young people has been challenging but I am beginning to enjoy it heaps and have just got onto a competitive PGCE course at Goldsmiths to train as an English teacher. Mad! Never thought I'd end up teaching but it seems to have just fallen into place and I am soooo excited about it! Lesson = God's provision and grace astounds me as it guided me through a pretty bleak phase of feeling completely lost with who I was and where I was going. The answer was of course God is God and is in control!
  

• Since September I have been attending a new Church. It's called The Bible Talks and is situated in Mayfair. I went along with a housemate and at first found it quite alien as the service was more formal than I am used to and the congregation all seemed like city high-flyers. I didn't see how I could fit in or how it could be my church family... But I continued to be drawn back by how great the teaching was (is!) and how amazingly centred on the Bible the Church is. And of course when you get to know people they are no way all in the box your mind automatically slots them into. Each week I go I continue to be challenged by the gospel-centred talks and it has helped me grow so much in looking to Jesus for hope and joy. Seriously have never been part of a Church quite like it.

• I think I can honestly say that I love Jesus and love life more now than I did a year ago! I guess the biggest lesson God has been applying to my life is to remember him for who he is and trust him!!! After feeling like I have been doing the splits- torn between staying in London and going on mission somewhere fun and exciting, I have come to realise that any opportunity I take with the right intentions I can serve Jesus. There is no plan A or B, but freedom in God's sovreignty as I can't step out of his will if my mind etc is focused rightly.

I have so much more to say but that's enough for now... But praise God for the many small blessings I have had and fun things I have enjoyed since moving back to London. These include the many Jesus centred chats I have had with Lea and Saz over wine/coffee/chocolate, jazz nights, parties, that crazy trip to Paris with Saz, having some of the ex-relay girls over to study Habakkuk and having many fun afternoons in Greenwich and other parts of London. And so after the first month of 2009 I am on quite a high and looking forward to seeing how the rest of the year turns out. :)