in terms of life catchup and our favourite question of ‘so what are you doing next year?’ which has suddenly become ‘so what are you doing this year?’ [wow, so quick] the answer is that my wife – the beautiful Val – is finishing up her thesis – handing in second draft this week and final draft second week of feb – and we are still waiting on God and trying to listen and hear what He has in store for us…

in fact from Friday to Thurs (being my birthday it will be nice to end off with some kind of meat appreciation feast) we are going to inviting some significant people in our lives (and anyone who wants to really, but we want people to be intentional) to join us in sending up prayers and listening for anything relating to God’s plan for us this year – i really have felt quite strongly that He has a plan and a leading for us specifically (rather than us just making a plan) and so we really want to give good time and attention to listening for that…

i am thinking of embarking on a Daniel type fast for the week (just fruit and vegetables and liquids) to assist my intentionality and if anyone wants to join me that would be more than welcome – so we’d love to hear if you are going to listen with us and any response or prompting you receive you can send to brettfish@hotmail.com – we are very excited because it is a great place of trust to be in – it does not come without nervousness and what-if-nothing-happens’ness especially because it is hard for a lot of people around us to believe that this is the way God is choosing to operate with us (and for val who is submitting to my ‘this is what i sense God saying’ more than having an equal sense of feeling God say that)

so ja, if you’re not going to join us for the week, it would be great if you could pause for a minute and invite God to speak directly into our lives in that way… thank you.

…til we hear anything else, we are staying at our place in Stellenbosch, helping lead the junior youth (Vybe) at Stellenbosch vineyard and trying our best to love God, love people, look after the needy and pursue life to the full…