It’s been one month since packers packed up our house in Eversley, yet if you had told me it had been six months I would have believed you. It has felt like a long slog of unpacking, dysregulated kids, fighting with the council (though rather one sidedly since for weeks they didn’t reply to any of our emails), no broadband (hotspots FTW), not a whole lot of sleep or downtime and an unwell boy. It has been challenging and exhausting, as moves generally are, with what felt like a truck load of things on top.

Yet through it all, I have had my eyes peeled for glimmers of God with us, glimmers of His goodness and kindness, glimmers of His light in the darkness. He has not disappointed me.

I’ve seen glimmers in the sheer beauty of the place we live, so close to the sea with incredible sunsets and so close to the New Forest with all its colours, landscapes and wildlife.

I’ve seen glimmers in the times when I’ve told members of our new congregation about our fight for a school place for our son, and their immediate response being that they would pray into it.

I’ve seen glimmers in new friends having us over for a playdate despite only meeting us once, and bumping into each other at the beach (hi Victoria ☺️).

I’ve seen glimmers in my mum coming to help bring order to the chaos of a recently-moved-into house, when all I could focus on was the daily grind.

I’ve seen glimmers in the kindness of a doctor and nurse only today, who saved my son and I from a 4 hour wait at the hospital and gave me a hug when their kindness brought me to tears.

I’ve seen glimmers in people working hard at their jobs with compassion and kindness (even when other people should have done so first).

The glimmers give us hope, the glimmers help us hold on and keep going when there is still so much to be done. At the moment the summer is stretching out unendingly as we don’t have a school place for September, and there are so many questions yet to be answered when we reach an outcome.

God has revealed Himself to be so close, but I may have missed these glimmers if I hadn’t been desperate to see Him with us. I desperately needed to know we weren’t alone in this, that He knew what we needed and would provide.

What glimmers have you seen recently that have helped you cling on to the knowledge of God with us? Maybe as you go into the next week you could keep your eyes peeled for glimmers in your own life?