Northern Rivers, New South Wales, Australia

The Hannah Cupboard. PICTURE: Courtesy of hannahcabinet.com

“I’m assured of this, that the one who started a very good work amongst you’ll deliver it to completion by the day of Jesus Christ” – Philippians 1:6

As a journalist, I meet some fairly attention-grabbing folks of whom I’ve had the honour of interviewing and sharing their tales.

Geoff Hannah, a cabinet-maker in Lismore, New South Wales, together with his cupboard. PICTURE: Courtesy of hannahcabinet.com

One such particular person was a person by the identify of Geoff Hannah, a cabinet-maker in Lismore, New South Wales. He’s the creator of the Hannah cupboard and it took him six-and-a-half years to finish this superb piece of furnishings. It’s made in a conventional European model and consists of 34 various kinds of strong timbers and veneers, 4 sorts of uncommon shells and 17 sorts of treasured and semi-precious stones. The principle body is mahogany and the columns ebony.

There are such a lot of drawers and small cabinets fantastically designed into the cupboard, that it’s certainly a murals. It’s at the moment housed within the Lismore Regional Gallery however was sadly affected by the Northern NSW floods that occurred in February, 2022, so has been despatched for conservation and evaluation.

Similar to the work that Geoff began and accomplished, God has executed the identical with good works in all of our lives. We could not see the method when it begins and even perceive that we’re altering, however as we journey on our path, that’s precisely what is occurring.

I do know after I look again to after I first turned a Christian on the sensible outdated age of 14. I had found how a lot of a pal Jesus might be in my life. It was like an awakening, totally different to the heavy religiosity of my Catholic upbringing. I had somebody to speak to and share my deepest ideas and emotions.

Little did I do know, it was the start of a really loooong journey that will take me via many highs and lows, wins and defeats, joys and sorrows. Principally, I might expertise life however all the time with the data that every thing I skilled was a part of the great work God had began, even earlier than I used to be born. And He’s nonetheless my confidant, though I’ve grown and matured.

Now at 56 years of age, each boys having left college and journeying on into their very own lives, it leaves my husband and I to surprise and talk about what this subsequent new chapter holds for us. Just like the Hannah Cupboard, we aren’t completed but, and at instances once we get broken, we might have a little bit of fixing, particularly whereas we reside on this earth. 

However there’ll come a day once we will probably be full.