Happy New Year ! And welcome to what, my brother has brilliantly titled the year, “twenty-stix”.
I know that I’m a little late on the whole Happy New Year post but I thought I would still pay a little homage to twenty-ten and do a quick December picture update. If you follow my blog, or know me at all, then I’m sure you know that twenty-ten was a bit of a rollercoaster ride for me. However, as I look back on the year what I would like to share is very positive and has just come to light for me very clearly in the final days of twenty-ten. When I look back on the year I feel I have learned a great deal about friendship. I can remember a time not so long ago where I really felt as if I had no friends. Of course, I had friends but I felt so disconnected from anything resembling a community or even a go-to person, someone I could without question, call on as my best friend. I prayed about the loneliness and disconnect I felt for quite awhile and then I started acting. Once I started acting, by making an effort to be a better friend to those I had an opportunity to reconnect with and by making an effort to befriend new people I came in contact with, I was amazed at how richly God blessed me. For every bad thing that happened in twenty-ten I feel it can be balanced with a great person I met or strengthened a bond with. There are people I became disconnected from in the past year and that always hurts but maybe I have now learned how to be a better friend and how to better define just what a friendship entails. I am so grateful for the people in my life that I call my friends. I realized on New Year’s Eve as I was preparing for the party I was throwing that many of the people I would be ringing in the new year with were people that I wasn’t friends with at the start of the year. I felt really amazed at how close I already felt to many of them and it made me feel like I’m headed somewhere really good. After the party someone remarked that it felt really great to be starting a new year with so many awesome people, and I agree, wholeheartedly.
As for twenty-stix? I get a positive vibe and I would like to share what the To Write Love on Her Arms organization tweeted shortly before midnight on Friday:
“Perhaps the fuss about midnight is rooted in the possibility that things can be new. Here’s to healing, here’s to change.”
Rather than write any New Years resolution that I will probably break in a week and feel angry at myself for breaking, I want to focus on that quotation. I'm going to focus on possibility, and be open to wherever it may be that God takes me. Oh, yes and if you’re wondering about December... here’s some pictures to sum it up.
Christmas always brings lots of events centered around food but my favourite one was the potluck I shared with the best home church around!
A Christmas dinner with a great best friend at a yummy restaurant.
Just your average Christmas activity in McAuley house
The aftermath of a very generous family
A Bubbly New Years party that was alotta fun.
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| bubbly decorations |
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| My latest dance partner |
And finally, a lovely fortune, at a lovely reunion to usher in 2011
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| Your heart is pure, and your mind is clear. |
Here's to twenty-stix... let's make it a good one! I think its safe to say this was the song of NYE...
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pee ess - I had all the picture organized, and it took me forever and then when I posted they went crazy. I don't know how to fix it. Computers annoy me. thanks BYE!
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