It was just a year ago that we moved into our first rental here in New Zealand, and the Camelias were in full bloom then.
We moved into the little yellow cottage by the sea in the dead of winter, just the two girls and I.
All our worldly belongings at the time were a fridge, a television and a brass bed, given to us by my Aunt, with whom we had stayed for the first few weeks here in New Plymouth.
The rest we purchased on Trademe, a couch for a dollar, a bed for ten, and so forth.
We also discovered the Hospice shops,and Salvation Army store, where we obtained cutlery and crockery, and linen, and other odds and ends we needed.
It has been a miracle journey really.
There's nothing quite like "just doing it", and it actually working out.
God has been ahead of our path at every turn, and it was evident in the way I got a job offer just 5 days before our visitors visas expired.
It was evident in the way my mother was able to come over and help me for the first two months with home schooling the two girls at my uncles, in Auckland, where we were first staying, whilst I completed the CAP programme to register as an IQN ( Internationally Qualified Nurse).
It was evident in the way we were able to leave South Africa when the girls father had tried his utmost to make it impossible, by dragging the courts into an unecessary and unwarranted battle to try and stop me from taking my children overseas.
But God was watching, and the truth prevailed.
Then we manage to obtain furniture, for free, which is really incredible.
Friends were put in our path to assist us, by God.
The home we are renting is spacious, and older, and in a very good area, with beautiful sea views. Were we lucky? No, God has been watching over us!
He surely does provide.
When we have been financially low, God provides just what we need, and I am absolutely humbled by His constant love.
