01.02.09
A New Year
So here we are in 2009. Hard to believe.
This holiday season was particularly blessed for Bryan and I. The unexpected arctic blast that hit Portland rearranged all of our carefully executed plans and opened up opportunities to reconnect in ways we never anticipated. I love that God works like that.
We actually spent Christmas with my family for the first time since 2005. It was a great couple of days. I am praying that this was the first step towards a year of restored relationships and new beginnings. I really want to see us step out in love this year and be ambassadors of grace.
We even got to have our cake and eat it too. Southwest gave us new tickets to Spokane for the same price we paid months ago so we were able to ring the new year in with Bryan’s family. I am just so thankful for how blessed we are.
We are living in a culture of fear and uncertainty right now with the economy, the situation in the Middle East, and everything else that is unstable about our world at the moment. Perhaps I should be feeling some of that but instead I am struck by how much we have–our families, our house, food and clothing, an amazing church family, friends all over the world, opportunities to bless other people, enough money to send to those with more needs than us, and the list goes on and on. When I simply take a moment to pause and reflect on the life that I have been given it floors me. I am unworthy of all this and on some level that’s a relief. I know who my faith rests in and He provides for me in ways I can never fully comprehend. God is so good.
That is the message I have to share in this new year my friends, God is SO good and His love is perfect and complete. I pray that you experience that love.
