white new year.
i may not have gotten more than a tiny flurry on Christmas but we're sure going to have a white new years! of and on all day it has been coming down pretty hard and between the beautiful snow showers you can see most brilliant robins egg blue in the sky. the vibrant white adds a richness to the sky that you can help but smile at.
i like the idea of having a white new years. earlier when it first started coming down i got this overwhelming feeling of being refreshed. a good way to start the new year if i do say so.
lets see what happened in 2008:
i spent my last semester on a college campus,
and enrolled in online ones,
discovered what would happen if a sheet of glass flew off a semi and hit my windshield,
cassie got married,
rejoiced at jolyn's announcement of baby #4,
had my first gallery showing
where i sold everything,
took an internship,
lived in an apartment
with jo beth
in a new state
at the beach,
got a part time job
at a coffee shop
which i love,
moved into a house with a completely new person,
dove head first into youth ministry,
stayed where i was,
said a sad goodbye to my dog of many years,
worked for a cleaning service and a movie theater,
owned my own dog [for three days],
multiple close friends now engaged,
gained a passion for ministry i never knew before,
gained a desire for learning i didn't know i had,
grew in more ways than i ever imagined,
saw God's provision in big ways: said house i live in rent/utility free, mysterious $600 gift in my door when i didn't know how i'd survive...
made friendships i'll treasure for life
and friendships that have stretched/taught me more than i ever dreamed they would...
as i sit back and think about everything, i have no doubts that 2009 will be even bigger and better than 2008. God is so awesome like that. and what's even cooler is that He always seems to move in unexpected ways. i already know that the next few months will bless my heart to the moon and back.
"this is the new year...
So everybody put your best suit or dress on
Let's make believe that we are wealthy for just this once
lighting firecrackers off on the front lawn
As thirty dialogues bleed into one
I wish the world was flat like the old days
Then i could travel just by folding a map
No more airplanes, or speedtrains, or freeways
There'd be no distance that can hold us back."
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