Steadfast

I was praying about our situation the other day and the word 'steadfast' came to me. So I get my Bible and I look up steadfast in the concordance bit - thinking about that old chorus 'The steadfast love of the Lord never ceaseth, His mercies never come to an end. They are new every morning, new every morning, Great is thy faithfulness, O Lord, Great is thy faithfulness'.

What do you know? In my NIV concordance there are quite a few 'steadfasts' BUT they are ALL about God making ME /US steadfast ! Well HURRAH I say.

I like 'steadfast' - it's a good Anglo Saxon word about standing firmly in a particular place - and we do believe we have been called to this particular place.

So with Psalm 108 in mind and Psalm 112 'He will have no fear of bad news; his heart is steadfast, trusting in the Lord' , here's the latest....

Things that have happened since last blog:

School is going well for both Flossie and Jude. This week Flossie has 2 days out of school, one to take part in some drama workshops and one to go out with the Ranger to see an ancient archeological thing called a 'broch'. Days out are a nice and frequent occurance in our school's programme.

We have a really hectic weekly programme of work and work related stuff - this week my 'girls only' fitness class starts - I'm very pleased that's happened.

Andrew is getting on well with his Fishermen's Mission work and we all went to lead worship (him) and speak (me) at a service in Kinlochbervie - where we introduced the congregation ( 12 including 4 Jarvis Clan) to Godfrey Birtill.

Things that haven't happened since our last blog:

We are still waiting for the house sale to complete - the end is in sight with this tho - hurrah!

Brownies is still waiting to start - this is INCREDIBLY frustrating but we will get there in the end I am certain.

Pix this time: us staffing a bike race 'food station' on Saturday - shortbread and bananas!

Jude in the rain on the beach - in new super duper 'Keeler' jacket (supporting Scottish Industry!!!)

AND the view from our garden (again) - tho the sun hasn't been out for several days!!!!

Sporadic!!

Jarv and Cle on the beach at Dornoch 30th Aug

Jude's 5th birthday tea party at Clactoll Beach 7th August

I really must get better at keeping this up to date. A September resolution. We have been here 5 months already, July and August have passed in a bit of a blur: a great time at Clan in St.Andrews, visits to Norfolk to see our parents, taking the young people from Lochinver to the Black Isle show, our own Highland Games being the wettest for 72 years or something!

My blogging may be sporadic but our God continues faithful - in the ups and downs and serious and minor wobbles He is the same......