Bethany Box

 My birth story has been far from easy to navigate and has left me feeling a huge spectrum of emotions from overjoyed and excited to do it all again to traumatised and terrified of childbirth. It has been complex to process the events that led to the birth of my gorgeous firstborn son, Jedidiah-Jones David Eganda, but first and foremost I am so thankful to God for it all; from conception and the beautiful experience of pregnancy to giving birth to a healthy and happy little boy. Going forwards I still have a long road ahead of healing mentally and emotionally, but I know that Gods plan is better than any plan I could have made for labour and delivery. I prayed for His perfect Will to be done so I find peace in accepting that this was the story He had wrote out for me to experience and it is all for a higher purpose to glorify His name and draw me closer to Him. At the end of the day, we are commanded in 1 Thessalonians 5:18 to “give thanks in all circumstances”, not just some, so w...

 This is a topic that I can’t express fully in words because it is much bigger than words and much bigger than anything I can fully understand or comprehend, neither do I sit and pretend that I know all or have huge experience in this area. But it is something that God is taking me on a journey to learn more and more about, in the hope I can experience Him at an even fuller capacity and know Him deeper. Because that’s the true meaning of life that we can never lose focus for; meeting God. And in order to meet God we need to know how to enter His presence. From listening to a series of messages by the lead Pastor of my church, Bishop Joshua Heward-Mills, something that I deemed has important is to study the people that came before me. The people that God had chosen. The people that God had described to be His friend. The people that God spoke to and instructed. When I have begun to open the Bible for myself and study through the first books of the Old Testament a common theme I note...

So, I want to continue a mini break from my series to continue just talking about what life has been like recently in a hectic and changing season, but a blessed season full of opportunities to serve God. I realise I have so much to be thankful to the Lord for, and I can’t wait to reveal some of the amazing testimonies He’s given me these past few months. The biggest way I can say thank you to God is through serving Him. That is why I am happy to give up my free time, money, efforts and resources to work for Him. God has set me free from addictions, has healed me from traumatic events, has removed sin and shame from my life and I am forever grateful for His unfailing grace to save someone as awful as me. The Apostle Paul wrote in Romans 12:1, “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service” (NKJV). I don’t think that it’s unreasonable at all for God to ask us to give up...

 This blog has gone quiet for several weeks and so instead of continuing straight back into my previous series, I thought I’d pause to catch up on what the Lord has been teaching me and revealing to me in some very important recent life events. I think it’s just in the last few weeks that God has shown me and taken me on the journey of what it really means to be a shepherd and a church worker in a region where everything depends very much on just you and your husband. I thought I knew what hard work was over summer, but when the University Freshers season hit this September, the work has really begun and I’ve started to see the difficulties, challenges and sacrifices that have to be made in a way that I have never experienced before. The Lord has taught me that to be married to someone in a position of leadership over a church branch and who desires a Pastoral ministry means that those marriages won’t be the same as other marriages. For example, I went into marriage thinking that...

The next few entries is a bit of a fun diary about the motions of life currently (the good, the bad, and the ugly) and how I have been facing some of these challenges with the help of the Holy Spirit, but also the hidden blessings that I am beginning to see within. About six months ago I got married to my wonderful husband and with submitting to another person to follow them it led me from moving to London England to Glasgow Scotland. The transition from being a single woman to being a married woman, alongside changing to a new country and city has been nothing short of a rollercoaster ride of challenges and struggles that I never anticipated. Firstly, marriage has been the most beautiful human relationship I have ever experienced. Secondly, I have grown to love Glasgow and the country of Scotland in such a small amount of time which has led me to realise I could never go back to living in London. Therefore, I am beyond blessed for these great opportunities the Lord has presented me wi...

 The next few entries is a bit of a fun diary about the motions of life currently (the good, the bad, and the ugly) and how I have been facing some of these challenges with the help of the Holy Spirit, but also the hidden blessings that I am beginning to see within. About six months ago I got married to my wonderful husband and with submitting to another person to follow them it led me from moving to London England to Glasgow Scotland. The transition from being a single woman to being a married woman, alongside changing to a new country and city has been nothing short of a rollercoaster ride of challenges and struggles that I never anticipated. Firstly, marriage has been the most beautiful human relationship I have ever experienced. Secondly, I have grown to love Glasgow and the country of Scotland in such a small amount of time which has led me to realise I could never go back to living in London. Therefore, I am beyond blessed for these great opportunities the Lord has presented ...

  “And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love” (1 Corinthians 13:13 NIV). The greatest accomplishment you can have in this lifetime is to love. Why? Because when the disciples asked Jesus what the greatest commandments were He responded that, “…‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbour as yourself.’” (Matthew 22:37-39 NKJV). The greatest task we can ever set ourselves on when on this earth is to love God and to love each other. But the reality hits that it is very hard and difficult to love another person. When I was belovedosing my now husband I thought that I knew all about love and that I would be the perfect loving wife because of the intense feelings of attraction I have towards him. Well after I said ‘I do’ and landed in a flat in Glasgow hundreds of miles away from anybody I had e...