As this year draws to a close, I spent some time reflecting on the year that is soon to be a year past. I will admit that I am glad that this year is ending. It has been a challenging year to say the least. Overall, it has been a year filled with lessons. Lessons on waiting, hoping, praying, pain of various kinds (physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual), walking by faith, getting to know who God is and where was He in and through all of it. And then, just when you think you've got it and everything is looking up and all is well again, here comes another lesson, different mind you, but just as difficult, if not more so.
This year has seen me in various states of my worst. Dealing with pain, having a child diagnosed with a autoimmune disease for which there is no cure, raising teens, tweens, a preschooler, and a toddler, and whether I would remain at my church, stretched me to the very limits of what I felt I was. Each morning I received another opportunity to try again, to get it right, to do it better, to be better.
With each lesson and through each challenge, I learned that His mercies are new every morning and Great is His faithfulness, even when I have been faithless. So it is with some joy that I say goodbye to 2014.
And with great hope that I say hello 2015!
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