So I guess this should be something profound, interesting, or just plain awesome since it's a new year, and this is the first post of the year.
Alas I'm not sure how profound it will be, how interested you'll really be, or if I'm as awesome as I think I am.
I do know this, 2009 is going to be an interesting year for sure, just as 2008 was in it's own way. 2008 was a big year for me. I came back to church and to God. I got baptized, grew up both spiritually, emotionally and probably mentally. I got active with some amazing projects and even started to lay the foundation for my own.
2008 saw a lot of growth for me and I can't help but look back at the year and go wow. I did all that? It's really hard to fathom and as much as I want to pat myself on the back and say "super job!" I know I'm just getting started.
Actually let me rephrase that GOD is just getting started.
Every year I have one gift I really want, it's a simple gift and I guarantee that anyone who gets me this gift will be in my good graces. What's this magical perfect gift? A Dilbert Page-A-Day calendar. I'm a geek and a lot of those silly Dilbert comics actually speak to me cause I've been there done that etc.
Sadly every year I'm left to go out and buy the calendar myself. It's gotten to the point that I've just given up on even asking for it because I never get it.
Or so I thought.
This year I got the calendar and it was perfect. I knew what it was as soon as I picked up the present, I didn't even have to open it and I could tell simple by touch what it was.
But this one was special. This time the calendar is in color. You see all the past years the calendar has been only in b&w but this year, 2009, it's in color. I was like the kind in A Christmas Story when he gets is Red Rider BB Gun. I was in awe that each day was a color comic and other little features I won't bore you with.
Yes Page-A-Day calendars do have "features".
But today when I traded out my 2008 calendar for my 2009 calendar I was struck with a very big thought. 2008 was a year about foundations. it was all about drawing the lines in my life, setting up the boundaries, the frames, the basic outline of what I thought life should and could be. It was about letting God take the pen from my hand and take those pencil sketches I had made and have him ink them in with what he wanted and knew was good.
2008 was pretty much black and white.
2009 though, just 5 days into it is already full of color. Like my 2009 calendar I am looking at things differently, approaching my life with a new purpose and adding features to it as we speak. This year a big goal of mine is to let my actions speak for me. Let my confidence in myself grow. Let the lessons I learn in life not only take hold and grip me but also flow from me into those around me so they can learn as well.
The great thing is I don't have to do anything but trust in God. He inked those pencil lines for me in 2008 and has provided the color for my 2009. He is in control and as long as I don't get uppity and try to take control myself, I know all will be good, no it will be great. He did amazing things for me in 2008 and he will do even more amazing things in 2009.
2009 is going to be interesting and the best part is now it's in color :-)
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