Facebook sent me a memory today from something I had written 4 years ago.  I thought I would share it as the same thoughts ring true this year.

As I look back at 2014 there are things that i wouldn’t change and there are many things I would have done differently. For instance, there were opportunities for blessings that I wasted because I was just focused on the negatives in them. There were situations that didn’t turn out as I had planned therefore I deemed them as “disappointments”. I could have (should have) praised the Lord for the fact that He rerouted circumstances in the way that He knew was the best and therefore they were really “His appointments” and I had every reason to be thankful for them. There were many times I felt discouraged because of my physical, emotional, and spiritual weaknesses. I cried over the fact that I could not do things a normal 32 year old could do and I don’t have a “normal” life. I should have lifted up my heart and said “thank you Lord for my weakness, because in it I can see that Your grace is sufficient, for your power is made perfect in weakness.”
Now, as I stand on the dawn of this new year, I do not know what it holds but my prayer is, come what may- sorrows or joys, dreams fulfilled or hopes still yet to be realized- that my Savior will find me faithful and that I will praise Him simply because He is God and He is good. I pray I will make the most of every opportunity given me to glorify Him and win souls for the kingdom.