16th April 2025
Meditation Verse: Psalm 68 “God sets the lonely in families.”
Over the past decade I’ve had quite the journey! At the start I was a very busy sales & marketing businesswoman with a seemingly glamorous and privileged lifestyle but with no-one to share it was really quite lonely. Now I have my lovely husband, Mark and 3 grown up stepchildren, not to mention the menagerie of cats. Life is more about family these days and less about a spotless house and lots of holidays. I am much happier despite the messiness of family life. It took 17 years of being on my own to finally reach this point so I’d say never give up on this week’s verse. I’m also so thankful for my Renew family who hold me up and encourage me every week and I’m delighted to see little pockets of Renew-style families continuing to pop up across our nations. If you are hosting a Renew space, bless you as you create a family for the loneliest and isolated in society. God sets the lonely in families but it’s our role to welcome them in our simple Renew way.
As it says in John 13:
“34 So now I am giving you a new commandment: Love each other. Just as I have loved you, you should love each other.”