This verse will be my theme to go by and look at. It is 2012...a new year for me to start over and get a fresh start at school and my work ethic and a new start to better health and taking care of myself. This past year has been quite the rough year. While it was hard and I did not know how to handle it...God got me and my family through it and continues to be with us today as we still deal with it. He has placed so many blessings in our lives amidst all of the troublesome things. He is a god that provides and will always watch out for us.
As I was reading through my devotional there was an excerpt that just was a good way to start out the year.
"Come to me with a teachable spirit, eager to be changed. A close walk with me is a life of continual newness. Do not cling to old ways as you step into a new year. Instead, seek my face with an open mind, knowing that your journey with me involves being transformed by the renewing of your mind. As you focus on your thoughts on me, be aware that I am fully attentive to you. I see you with a steady eye, because my attention span is infinite. I know and understand you completely; my thoughts embrace you in everlasting love. I also know the plans I have for you: plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Give yourself fully to this adventure of increasing attentiveness to my presence."
As I ponder upon this I look back at this year and see what I have been blessed with.
This summer I got the chance to work in Atlanta, Georgia for a month and work with the youth and community. It was a great experience.
Another thing I shoot as a highlight would be going to the pulse festival with my boyfriend and his sister. It was a blast and I loved it. I learned how to play euchre.
Then...my first shark week!
Then came the school year...I got the incredible chance to work with an awesome group of people in outreach. I am sad to not be able to work with them this next semester but this semester will be better and it will all get better.
Then some awesome time with friends during the school semester...
My favorite part of this year was the christmas season. I had lots of fun with friends and family, went to a Komets game with my boyfriends family, went caroling at Grace Village, and had some good times at Craigs family christmas's and my family christmas's.
I am blessed to have the friends and family that I do. I have so much to be blessed for and will always remember to be thankful for the epic things that took place last year. May this next year be even better.
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