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 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.