It doesn’t feel like New Year’s Eve. Maybe that’s because the tree outside my window has all it’s leaves, and I live in a perpetual early spring climate. Early spring was a lot more fun when it followed winter. I comfort myself with the ocean, it’s ebb and flow to remind me that there is indeed a rhythm to all life and change.
Holidays mark the passing of our lives, give shape to the seasons, and remind us to take an inventory. I like to take this time between Christmas and New Years (and the first few weeks of the year) to make sense of where I’ve been and where I’m going. It is a perfect time for this, following my birthday and last year my advent into full time ministry.
Words to describe 2010, my 29th year: preparation, cocooning, foundations, Charismania and the Spirit filled church. Forgiveness, peace, and rest. Sense-making, denial-untangling, truth-speaking love. Community. Relationship. Art, music, violin, voice. Season’s changing. Chewl.
What words describe your year?
Raindrops in the Ocean 
Jan 03, 2011 @ 02:49:17
At the beginning of last year God said the theme for the year would be growth and hope. That has definitely been very true.
Otherwise. Trials, persecution, hardship. Faithfulness, love, rescue. Grace! More love 🙂