Proverbs 15:24 The path of life leads upward for the wise to keep him from going down to the grave.

I have learned to love God over the last 25 years. I’ve learned to love the way that God loves me. In the last 5 years since 2010 my father has died, I have been involved in two court cases which are both thankfully now concluded, I have undertaken a degree in nursing, during which time I have had to take two, one-year interruptions, one for an operation and a second owing to the court cases that I was involved in. Also during this time I needed 18 months of counselling almost on a weekly basis to deal with issues around abuse that I suffered during my early teens. During my degree, circumstances arose that meant that I had to complain against my University on two occasions and in addition to this I was also forced to appeal an exam board decision to fail me in my degree. During the last five years I was aware of God’s love for me and God’s plan for my life. The 20 years previous to 2010 I was living as i do now, as a Christian. Events of those 20 years lead me to persevere through various different trials. So during the last 5 years I was keenly aware that God was making me fight for everything that I wanted. I felt like I was in a constant battle to achieve what I thought was simple and so it is somewhat of an anticlimax that on Wednesday afternoon this week after receiving an email from my university I checked my online account and found that I have been awarded a 2:1 BSc in Adult Nursing.

 

God really loves me. I really love God. I’m so thankful to God for allowing me to achieve this success in my academics in the midst of many trials. It has not broken me but it has made me a better man and a better husband. It will make me a better father too, as for the last 6 months my wife and i are in the process of adoption. God knows what I needed this last five years. It will make me a better nurse. The last five years experience gives me faith for my future. I will remember that i may be trying to achieve something that I think is simple but I know that God may “mix it up” with me. He may put what seem like constant challenges in my life for me to overcome to make me stronger. Ultimately these challenges will make me more useful to God. I love God and I want to be useful to God. I really am thankful for the last five years. I’m thankful to have my degree in nursing. I’m thankful that I was given the opportunity to change my career at the age of 41 years old.

I’m very privileged. I understand that. I’m part of a very privileged group of individuals. I’m a son of God.

God, Today you have fulfilled your words shared with me by your servant in 1990..

Jeremiah 29:11-13 For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.

Thank you Father.
Love.
James