The obligatory year-in-review
Because it’s that time again, here’s my 2007 summary.
This year has been an interesting one. For a good portion of the year, it felt like I was going through a wringer, emotionally and sometimes physically. Issue after issue has piled up on top of me and at times it all just felt endless. (To be fair, nothing I’ve gone through this year has been life-changingly awful, mostly just unpleasant thing after unpleasant thing.) But if this year’s been about one thing, it’s been about finding God in all the craziness.
I’ve seen a pattern in the bad things; again and again I’ve banged up against problems I couldn’t control or change or make better, and in turning them over to God have been amazed at either the peace I felt or the way that things started changing. And do you know what? I wouldn’t have it any other way. If I could go back to the beginning of the year and make it all OK and easy, I wouldn’t. I have learned enormous amounts about life and God and myself in the last couple of years, to the extent that a friend I hadn’t seen in a while said a few weeks ago that I seemed like a totally different person. And I definitely needed to make some changes. (And need to make a fair few more, that’s for sure!)
So my New Year’s resolutions are thus:
Read the entire Bible (made much easier by the Bible-in-a-year I bought last week)
Finish my Venice painting (so much for my resolution to finish one of my novels last year - I'm setting realistic goals this time)
Become MUCH LESS intense
Get some exercise now and then (not too much you understand, don't want to go overboard)
Put on some weight via cheesecake (good healthy trans fats, yum).
This year has been an interesting one. For a good portion of the year, it felt like I was going through a wringer, emotionally and sometimes physically. Issue after issue has piled up on top of me and at times it all just felt endless. (To be fair, nothing I’ve gone through this year has been life-changingly awful, mostly just unpleasant thing after unpleasant thing.) But if this year’s been about one thing, it’s been about finding God in all the craziness.
I’ve seen a pattern in the bad things; again and again I’ve banged up against problems I couldn’t control or change or make better, and in turning them over to God have been amazed at either the peace I felt or the way that things started changing. And do you know what? I wouldn’t have it any other way. If I could go back to the beginning of the year and make it all OK and easy, I wouldn’t. I have learned enormous amounts about life and God and myself in the last couple of years, to the extent that a friend I hadn’t seen in a while said a few weeks ago that I seemed like a totally different person. And I definitely needed to make some changes. (And need to make a fair few more, that’s for sure!)
So my New Year’s resolutions are thus:
Read the entire Bible (made much easier by the Bible-in-a-year I bought last week)
Finish my Venice painting (so much for my resolution to finish one of my novels last year - I'm setting realistic goals this time)
Become MUCH LESS intense
Get some exercise now and then (not too much you understand, don't want to go overboard)
Put on some weight via cheesecake (good healthy trans fats, yum).