I love the beginning of a new year. It is positively one of my favorite times of year. I get to start fresh and take advantage of the opportunity to view these next 365 days in a new, wiser perspective. I am brimming with anticipation for this upcoming year and I almost cannot contain my excitement. This year, I feel, will be a year of change. Not just for myself but also for people around me. There will be babies, weddings, new chapters, all lovely things that will be a blessing to see God unfold.
I don't really have much to share about my resolutions for this upcoming year. I, typically, make a list of things that I want to accomplish and see happen in life. Sometimes I accomplish them, sometimes I don't. Although I did make a brief list of resolutions, my number one resolve this year is simply to enjoy it. 2011 was a bit of a stressful year, so I am really looking forward to letting my hair down, smiling more, laughing often and enjoying time with the people that I love and that have taken the time to invest in me during my previous, stress filled year. I mean, I'm smiling as I type this so 2012 has to be great, right? :)
I hope YOU have a wonderful 2012 and that we have an abundance of engaging stories to tell 12 months from now...
"...14 For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, 15 from whom every family[c] in heaven and on earth is named, 16 that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, 19 and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
20 Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, 21 to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen." Ephesians 3:14-21
