End of the Year Blog

Dec 30, 2009

Tomorrow is New Year's Eve, and on Friday, I will turn 27. I'm very excited to bring this year to a close. Sometimes it hurts me to think that I've wasted a lot of years, but it makes me so proud to know that I finally, finally, finally made the changes in my life that I've always wanted to. I've done so much this year that I've gone too far to turn back to the old me, and that makes me very happy. I started the year with the glass half empty, and I had a lot of ups and downs, but now I'm leaving this year with the glass half full and so looking forward to the next year and can't wait to keep going. One thing that I'm going to ask God for this year is the strength to deal with set backs. Which makes me sort of chuckle. I saw "Evan Almighty" for the first time last week, and at one point, God's character says to Evan's wife,

"Let me ask you something. If someone prays for patience, you think God gives them patience? Or does He give them the opportunity to be patient? If he prayed for courage, does God give him courage, or does He give him opportunities to be courageous? If someone prayed for the family to be closer, do you think God zaps them with warm fuzzy feelings, or does He give them opportunities to love each other?"


I'm not particularly religious. I'm a former Catholic who is starting to dabble in Presbyterianism. But I do see myself as a spiritual christian, and I do feel I have a relationship with God. This thought really awakened my senses and helped me see that God is giving me opportunities to improve myself all the time. I've just been so single minded that I've been missing them. So this year, I want to remember to give myself some pause to recognize things not as setbacks or roadblocks or disappointments, but as opportunities that God has provided for me to make myself just a little bit better. Putting this into practice will help me, help others and improve all aspects of my life.

I told myself a few weeks ago, "no resolutions, just change". But now I am allowing myself this one resolution, to turn each situation into an opportunity.

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