All Change? (by Helen)

Well, the McGowans came home from Keswick on saturday after a week of camping and Bible teaching.

Some of the Bible teaching seemed, at the time, to be a bit loosely based on the passage and we felt disappointed about the convention. But the commitment to God’s truth as revealed in the Bible being the basis of Christian growth and equipping for action by the powerful work of the Holy Spirit was central to the week and therefore we were actually delighted and changed through the work of God in our lives – hooray!!!

So now we are home and we are back to normal. What will the fruit of the Gospel look like in our lives? Well this post won’t tell you, time will tell. But a few things have changed. We are excited about prayer, we usually pray at night before the boys go to  bed and then when we go to bed, we often pray as a family at breakfast time before we all head out into the world to our different days, but we are challenged to spend more time in prayer for the world and God’s purposes in our lives bearing fruit.

The other thing I noticed this morning is that the window cleaner came and Jon took him a cuppa. Not unusual, but we were going to stop having him because its a bit expensive to get our windows cleaned twice a month. Jon’s just chatted to him while he had his cigarette break and cuppa. So I guess we are not getting rid of him anymore!! 😀 Sometimes you have to just look at your own day a bit differently to see the full life of work that God has put in your lap for blessing other people with His truth and love and the lives that He has given us.

Lets see what the next few months/years bring!