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October 20th, 2009A few days in…
February 15th, 2009Well here we are a few days in at the start of a bit of a battle for me and my family and friends. I have been overwhelmed by the love we have received from everyone – even from many people we have never met and have never known. I have seen the beauty in the church, the people who have chosen to give their hearts to Jesus – I have seen a little of what God had in mind when he made the world – it is beautiful and I would never have experienced this if such a bad thing had not happened to me and my precious wife. We prayed with Pip’s brother and sister in law yesterday and received such beautiful words from God – everything we needed was given us and more. Hannah laughed so much in the Holy Spirit! We also cried and felt a lot of comfort. Thank you Mike and Pip for loving us so much. Your friendship has been so, so precious this last few days – you have worn yourselves out for us and wanted to as well. I have known the closeness of Jesus in how so many people have loved us – it has been like someone beautiful stuck right to me, feeling my feelings, crying my tears, understanding and accepting and just knowing…
Thank you to everyone – too many to name that has loved us so beautifully – just a few days but so much love, love, love. Thank you God – I love you God and I love your people.
Hannah and I know the hope we have and it is sure but the journey there can be full of pain.
I struggled today with handling Josh and his feelings – this is the emotional crunch point for me in all this. My mindset is changing but it takes time.
Small things and YOU KNOW WHAT
February 14th, 2009As you know it has been a painful few days. I wanted to share a little story. I have just got into using Spotify and I somehow noticed the Fray had a new album out. I listened to it a lot on the day Hannah recieved her diagnosis and it helped me (dont ask me why!). Friends and family had been in touch with calls and texts and emails all day but later that night I just thought “You know what my brother loves me and you know what I would like this Fray album and you know what I just cant even begin to think about ordering it, I am that worn out, and you know what just maybe my bro loves me enough to understand this request on a day like this, and you know what just maybe God understands too and you know what maybe it would make my bro feel good to actually do something for us whilst he lives away from us, and you know what maybe it would feel good to ask my bro and for him to understand and you know what I am gonna do it and trust that I am loved AND YOU KNOW WHAT MY BROTHER REPLIED WITH THESE EXACT WORDS IN HIS TEXT – ‘That’s amazing – I literally have it in my hand just having bought it at Sainsbury’s…Love u bro.’”
And the God of heaven reached down to his little worn out son whose precious wife has just been told she has a terminal disease and HE SAID I LOVE YOU BENJAMIN JOHN DYKE, I LOVE YOU SO MUCH. And best of all I HEARD IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bonding with my son
December 24th, 2008Felt the Lord show me today the phrase ‘common enemy’ when I was praying about bonding with my son, who is currently 4 years old. This resonated with me that instead of fighting with each other (the Dyke family default for men) I can bond with Josh around fighting a common enemy. Now at the moment this plays out like this: we play co-op games on the 360! But as Josh gets older this wisdom will still apply but will be related to real life issues – justice, fairness, righteousness etc. So help me God…