Monday, January 11, 2016

Recaps and Futures

The last quarter of every year is always so packed with activities. FUN stuff, but lots of them! We have 4 birthdays, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's!

We had a lovely Christmas filled with family and memories. Family came in from Illinois, Florida, and Texas... we loved on each other. We laughed, we ate too much, and we didn't sleep nearly enough. It was perfect.

We hosted our annual New Year's Eve party. It was fun. We stayed up until midnight (yay to us old people!) and another wooden spoon broke (banging those pans outside can get serious in no time!).

I LOVE to be surrounded by family and friends. I love having a house full of people. I love hosting and seeing people laughing and the ping pong competitions, and the food, and the sounds... I love the memories.

2015 was an amazing year. One where I dropped to my knees many times thanking my Father for His blessings. So many and so undeserving. B and I are very aware of how blessed we are - there is no doubt that we serve an awesome God. We had some doozies in 2015 as well, but having a Father who is forever loving and grace filled and forgiving makes mountains look like mole hills. God is so good to us.

A and I started Jen Hatmaker's "7" challenge on January 1st. For the next 7 months we will walk through a journey where we will simplify our lives in all kinds of (radical) ways. This month we are eating 7 foods and only 7 foods. It was rough for the first 3 days but now it's good... I remind myself that 7 is so much more than 1 or 0 which is what a huge population of our world lives on. I am financial and physically able to purchase hundreds of varieties of foods at thousands of places. There are human beings fighting for rice, for water, for basics. We are rolling in blessings and complaining about our restriction to 7 foods seems quite selfish.

Next month we'll be wearing 7 items of clothing all month. We're going to get creative!

I pray that as we continue on this journey that we rid ourselves of our "needy" mentality and realize that we live in an abundant life. I pray that we can look at what we have and find ways, all kinds, to give back to others and to the nature God has given us.

This has been a challenge, but only because there are parts of me God wants to make better and that's an excellent way to start 2016!


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