I always love the start of a new year. New goals, new dreams, fresh calendar, I enjoy the feeling of starting over and taking a look back at all that has happened in the year past.
As I sit here staring 2012 in the face all I see is big looming unknowns and lots of change. I am excited about what God has in store for us this year, but also scared to death. In the course of the next month we will be picking up our family and starting over again in a new place. Matt has accepted a job at the Storm Prediction Center in Norman, OK. I am so excited about this opportunity for him and we truly feel God calling us to this place. But its still not easy.
I'm so thankful for all the Lord has done for us here in Fort Worth. What an amazing 2.5 years it has been! As I look ahead in 2012 I am constantly reminded of His faithfulness in bringing us here. Never once have we ever walked alone in our time here and we will not walk alone as we move forward.
So as I begin this new year I have set goals for myself but the more I've prayed and sought the Lord I keep coming back to the word THANKSGIVING. The idea of being thankful in ALL things. I read Ann Voskamp's book 1000 gifts last year and it changed my way of thinking. I highly recommend this read. I also read her blog from time to time. This year she is challenging her readers to a Joy Dare. Basically its a counting of 1000 gifts (graces from God) in 2012. As I read more about it I felt that this is exactly what I need. There is a lot of change coming and I don't want to get lost in my self pity. I want to be full of joy, grace and thanksgiving.
"He deserves all my thanks and it’s impossible to give thanks and simultaneously feel fear." (Voskamp)
It’s habits that can imprison you and it’s habits that can free you and when thanks to God becomes a habit, so joy in God becomes your life. (Voskamp)
Would you like to join me? I'm not sure how I will organize them all yet (pictures, journal, etc) but I've already begun counting.
Here's to a thank full, joy full year!
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1 comment:
Erin, my word for the year is "choose". I can choose to be thankful or not, I can choose joy and grace or sadness. It's my choice each day and giving thanks is what I will choose to do each day. I'm so proud of you and the mature, Christian young woman you have become and are becoming as God continues to work in you and through you. May God's richest blessings be yours in 2012.
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