The joy of the Lord is my strength

Praise God for the sunshine...

Yesterday and the day before I could sit in the sun and reflected on how much God blessed me the last few month!


Sometimes I think we need to go through hard times so that we enjoy the blessings that God gives us even more..


To live here at Hands of Hope is such a blessing!

I just love my apartment and the people I live with here in this building!
Praise God!
I would have never ever thought that I would one time have my own apartment.

I also love my job! Working for and in the childrens ministry is such a blessing and the work here at Hands of Hope is also GREAT!

GOD IS SO GOOD TO US!
...I know.. its easy to write that when you have a good time... But don't think that everything in my life is perfect... but since I live here I learn to thank God!

Claudia (Achims wife - Achim is the leader of Hands of Hope) told me in the beginning "Kerstin we don't want to allow satan to steal our joy" and I thought that's so true!!!
The joy of the Lord is our strenght and if we don't have joy and if we are not thankful we won't have strength!!!

So now I'm training myself to be thankful!! :)

I'm listening right now to this song from Jeremy Camp...

There will be a day, with no more tears no more pain and no more fears
There will be a day, when the burdens of this place will no more
we see Jesus face to face
but until this day we hold on to you always

Halleluja...