Dear Readers,

I am very excited to be back writing to you again. It has been seven months since my last post. A lot has been happening in my life and along with catching you up on my exciting news I am also launching my new website! I hope you like the look as I am very pleased with its freshness.

All of our lives go through different seasons and phases. That is what makes life interesting. Some of you may think it makes life hard but without these events, whether good or bad, we would not have memories to share with our family or friends. Our lives would be boring, bland and predictable. Sometimes we can wait so long for something to happen that we miss what is happening in our present lives. This is something that I have been teaching myself of late. There are things in my life that I am longing to happen and have longed to happen but at the same time I have been trying to consciously stay in the present and not let a moment pass by without me in it.

Keeping on the subject of change I have had a very momentous event happen to me in the past seven months; I have gotten engaged to my wonderful boyfriend, now fiancé. The picture above is the view from where he proposed to me. We had to do a 40 minute hike up to, what is known as ‘The Bluff,’ in the ranges behind his family home and it was worth every step. I was getting ready to share this news with you in the July letter when I noticed a fault in my website. This was the tipping point for the update, as I had been thinking of doing so for a while prior to this. So, I do apologise for the late announcement.

Now, as I’m sure you can imagine, I have been, and still am, in full wedding planning mode. I have just over two months left at home with my family before the big day. I have been reminding myself to live in the moment, as I was talking about before. I don’t want to miss a moment of this new and exciting season in my life. This engagement, however, also means moving away from everything I have grown up knowing. The people, the lifestyle, the area; everything in my world has an imminent change approaching. So, along with enjoying the process of finally getting to organise and prepare for a day that I have been waiting, nearly all my life for, and looking forward to spending the rest of my life beside the man God has graciously provided for me, I also want to enjoy being around the people I love and adore while they are close at hand. The way this is written sounds like I will never see them again, which is certainly not the case. However, for anyone who has moved a long way away from their family once they got married, I’m sure you understand that you want to treasure every moment you can with them while they’re nearby.

Life is short so remember to stop and smell the roses as you walk by. Take a moment to admire their beauty. In this instance the rose represents a moment, an event, a season. God has blessed us all with breath in our lungs, to enjoy this earth He created for us and the lives that we live; so let’s make the most of every second we get.

Psalm 150:6, “Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.”

God Bless,

Jane Bishop