As I walk past shop after shop, I ask God, “What are You doing here in this space?” Unexpectedly, I feel an excitement rising up within me. I hear God whispering quietly into my heart, “Into what looks like death, I will breathe my life”. I realise as I walk through this space that there is music playing and the lyric I hear in that moment is “dry bones coming to life”. I invite you to join with me in praying into the empty spaces in your world. Listen to the sweet breath of life that God is breathing into your circumstances. Taste and see that He is good and watch as these dry bones yet live!

I saw before me footprint after footprint, until there was a series of footprints extending out in front of me. I could not see where they were going, and the pathway was not complete, I just knew that I was to follow one step at a time and that as I took each step another would be revealed before me. I knew God was presenting me with an invitation to live out Psalm 37:23-24:

“The steps of a [good and righteous] man are directed and established by the Lord,
And He delights in his way [and blesses his path].”

You know that saying, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times?” That’s what comes to mind when I think about the path I have been walking in this past season of life. I think these words of Charles Dickens sum it up well.

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,

it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness,

it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity,

it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness,

it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair…”