Hello friends!
Firstly I start by apologising for not being as 'live' on my blogs as I'd hoped to be last year. I hope this year will be different.
So........
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
Indeed I do pray that this indeed will be a happy new year for all of us. As I write this I am sat in Heathrow airport awaiting to board my flight back to south Africa! I was incredibly blessed by my family for bringing me home for Christmas . It's been such a blessing to have good quality time with family and friends who I've missed so much over the past year . I have been blown away by their generosity in time support and even finances! God bless you and continue to show you favor in all you do.
As I return to South Africa as much as i will miss being with my family, my friends,being in my home. I am super excited to be going to another place I have come to call home. To an extended family to the kids that we care for. To my community stay family whom I've become quite close to since my initial weekend stay in February. But as much as am looking forward to those joyous moments a part of me is very aware of the reality of the lives of the kids we care for. I'm afraid to hear the stories of what Christmas could have been like for them. In communities where holidays can be the riskiest time for them. But my heart draws joy in knowing we trust God to watch over them everyday. We have incredible carewokers who live in those communities and are standing for them and still cooking and caring for them during this time.
Although our Christmas may look very different in terms of the materliasm the gifts the shiny lights. Christmas is a time where we often try to give, to share, to be family and that's the same everywhere. So as we enjoy in the overflow let's remember to be answer to those in need. To look beyond our own comfort and seek to be a bridge in someone's life story. To think outwards. What I have found is that often as you give of yourself to others to those in need God cares for your needs and puts people around you.
So I take this time to say thank you to all those whose supported me in friendship, in prayers, in finances you have been a bridge for me to be a bridge to the kids here at hands at work Africa. I encourage you to continue journeying with me and even take if further support a child. To know how to do this visit handsatwork.org. to support me please do message me.
So let's take this year by Storm and Go where God goes and do what he does.
Lots of love
Grace
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Miss Grace w Kariuki
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