I've got your back

I know it's been a while since I've blogged, but I got kind of 'spooked' by the whole blogging thing and it's taken me a while to recover.

A lot has happened since my last post, and although I usually don't mention a whole lot about my life in this blog, I feel like making an exception.

At the beginning of June I traveled with my father to Ontario to visit the cemetery where my mother is buried, in honor the 7th year since her death. I very much enjoyed the trip and the extended time with my Dad. It was great to see lots of relatives that I have not seen in several years, especially my cousin Sarah, who I am especially close to. I visited Sturgeon Point, which is the place that I named this blog after. It was good to be there again and I felt a definite sense of release from God in terms of some of my emotions about the Point.

June also saw Pam and I enter another season where our home is opened to others. We have some friends that have been staying with us for a month before they leave for Korea and we saw that God had a purpose for their stay with us even beyond saving a month of rent. Also in June, we agreed to an opportunity to have a french exchange student stay with us for the month of July. It has been a few years since we sensed the Lord wanting us to have people stay with us; some may recall that the last time we had people living with us, it didn't end very well, and we certainly needed a season to recover; God seems to have decided that season is over; I'm glad that He's led us back to an open home again; Pam and I have always wanted our home to be a place of ministry to people who would stay with us.

A couple of weeks ago, I had a very minor car accident but ended up totaling my car! Not cool! I was turning left at a 4-way stop in extremely heavy rain, which reduced my vision and I hit a cement meridian. I was going about 15 km/hr., but the impact deployed both of the airbags. Smoke filled my car which made me think my car was on fire, so I leapt out of the car into the pouring rain, but not before I managed to sustain quite a nasty burn on the majority of my right hand, thanks to the airbag that was supposed to protect me (don't get me started!!)

At any rate, the sub-frame (whatever that is) was bent, so that, along with the other damage caused the insurance company to write off my car. I got a decent settlement but I'm now without a car and I miss my little Honda Civic. Strangely in the midst of it, I've had the sense that somehow God was involved in the car thing. Obviously I can't prove that, but I don't think I'm just being hyper-spiritual about it either. Seems something is going on.

So between Ontario, the car, people staying with us, and the normal activities of life (not to mention some pretty intense adjustments at The Canopy), it's been an unusual June, to say the least!

Back on the evening of May 22, I went for a walk and I remember very clearly God saying "I've got your back". At the time it was a powerful word to hear, and I heard it both with my mind and with my heart. While I knew some of what was coming, I didn't know everything that would happen in the next month.

So as I move on into July, here's hoping that it's a bit of an easier month. For sure I'm glad that God's got my back, but I'm still ready for a bit of a break!
:)