Hope you all had safe and fun Christmases and New Year celebrations!
2011 was such a significant year in many ways and it ZOOMED by! It’s a brand new year! I love fresh starts–mostly because I SO often mess up. Many a relationship, project, checkbook balance, resolution (not necessarily just new year’s resolutions) has fallen to pieces under my care. And while I continue to grieve the messes I made in 2011, I’d like to think I’m turning the corner into gratitude and hope for those very things in 2012.
I’d love to pat myself on the back on how much I’ve worked, tried, loved, cried, expended emotionally, spiritually and physically for college students, family, friends, etc…. but as I reflect on 2011, I know I couldn’t say I was like the man in Matthew 13:44 who sold ALL he had to buy the field for the treasure he found. And the point isn’t for me to send this to you just to confess and deprecate. There will come a day when the Lord will collect my life and all that was in it, so I can experience the treasure I’ve found in Him. And until that day comes, I can rejoice that God’s still working on me and refining me and wanting me in my brokenness and messiness.
Surely, not everything within my life is in ruin! (I don’t mean to be so dramatic!) One glaring thing is you, ministry partners! Your faithful giving and prayer to the Lord gives me MUCH hope and enthusiasm for what He has in store! Thank you for walking with me in ’11! Here’s to our journey in ’12!!
wooooot!!! =D Cheers to a new year!