...another year

It's here. another year. fresh hope. expectation. uncertainty. adventure.

When you really think about it starting a new year has a certain air about it. There is the wonder of a fresh start. The new resolve to do all the things you had planned of course to do 3 new years a go.

I feel satisfied too that I made it through a another year. As if I had been plowing through a swamp of quicksand that had been threatening to engulf me at any moment.

Maybe that was a bit dramatic, but well you know one day the world feels if it can't go on and the next day you wonder why everyone doesn't have a sunny disposition like yourself. Ahem.

I should know better but I do have expectations for this new year. Is it too much to expect that in every situation I will see God faithful? Can I expect of myself to always remember that God is good no matter what may befall me. Will I stop and take in those moments of God's goodness that could otherwise go unnoticed in a blink of an eye.

I think I'm going give myself a word of the year.

STOP

Because I know what reality is. How easy it is get caught up in the important business of noticing your own faults and other's shortcomings. There are so many things to intend in life that of course there shouldn't be time to just stop and look around and see God just doing His usual business of being faithful.

I think it would be a sorry thing to be once again starting a new year again next year and realize I'm just the same. Perhaps my other word of the year should be go. Follow God in His process of conforming me without stopping.

Are you going to stop and remember God's faithfulness while even at the same time you are moving forward?