It's A New Day

Christmas has come and gone. It's so crazy. Every year I'm ready to savor Christmas and I want it to last forever, but it always goes by so quickly. I must say Christmas 2010 was one of my favorite. So many things are happening in my family - it's wonderful. Both of my aunts are now married, and I never thought I would see that day. Not being mean or anything, but I truly didn't. I've prayed for God to bring them happiness and here it is. Christmas was full of family and love and laughter and turkey and pie and all the things it should contain. And now here I am, in 2011, not knowing what to do...not knowing what I should accomplish this year. It's funny - I always set up these resolutions and it seems like each year God does something completely unexpected in my life. 2010 - I wanted to be more responsible, to grow up a little, and here I go to Panama on a mission trip, thinking "Ohhh, I just need to do this. It's my 'Christian Duty''' - I was wrong. I needed to do that becausee I needed something to completely rock my life in every way possible. Panama was how God grew me up, not graduating, not moving out of my house, but a group of people on an island in the Panama. So this year, I'm saying "Bring it on" - I'm not going to put any limits on what God will do in my life and in the lives of those around me. All I am doing is simply surrendering and preparing myself in every way to take on His challenges. I already have a couple of things going for me - I'm in college, which has been a struggle in the past, but I'm ready for it to become a transformation in my life; Im wanting to do something awesome with my summer. Either a mission trip to Alaska or working at a YoungLife camp; and I'm in this courting relationship that I love and I have so much fun (sometimes painful fun) trying to figure out and learn about. It's going to be a good year. And it's definitely a new day.