New Year Thoughts

The old year is gone. All that is left of 2010 is the memories of time gone by. As I look forward to the new year, my thoughts are drawn back to what God has done in the past year. I have seen Him do some pretty amazing and life altering things in the last year. He taught me to trust Him to provide when I went the entire summer without income. Time after time I saw Him provide, just what I needed at exactly the right time. My brother got married in October, and we found out that they're expecting their first baby next summer. I got to care for a wonderful little baby girl the last few months of the year. (Caring for babies is one of the best ways I know to learn patience. Even the best babies will cry sometimes, for reasons that are impossible to discover. You simply have to have patience and do the best you can to comfort them. And sometimes you just have to have a good cry yourself, then a good laugh, and then it doesn't seem so bad after all.)

I am beginning this new year with a new adventure, looking for a new job. I have a lot of options and possibilities. It seems like everyone has a new idea, and they all sound like good ones. So, I'm putting out feelers and trusting God to show me what His will is, praying that He will open the right doors and road block the wrong paths. I am learning to move forward in what seems to be a good direction, then trust Him to guide my turns.

A new year holds the promise of better things to come. I am excited to see what God's better things are for me and how far above and beyond my better things they will be! His ways truly are higher than my ways and following Him is by far more fun than doing things my own way! That's another things He has taught me over the last year. Whenever I try to do things my own way, all I end up with is one BIG mess! When I do things God's way, I get something truly beautiful, even when it is 100% opposite from what I thought I wanted!