Another year...

As we're coming to the end of another year, I've started to get nostalgic.

When I look at this past year, it has been quite a spectacular journey, as I guess each year is.

Despite lots of lows and lots of difficulties in everything I can see God's handiwork. I see a small part of His plan and I have so much to thank Him for.

This year I've taken risks, failed and succeeded, been hurt and hurt others, seen illness, felt illness and seen healings, been the happiest I can be and been the saddest I can be, grown and seen change and in it all is God.

I have no regrets from this year, (a bold statement to make) even the rubbish parts I can see the positives and I can see areas that I've grown as a result of 'mistakes'. When I think about everything God has done for me this year, it fills me with awe and joy.

I'm so grateful that He wasn't just with me for the start of the year, but through it all and next year will be the same. I don't know what it brings, but I know God will be right by my side and I'll look back again in December 2011 and be once again thankful and eternally grateful to Him for everything I've learned.

It's great to have a constant companion that has been with me through all the situations, through all the ones I vividly remember to those I've long forgotten. He has blessed me majorly this year.

If you've had a 'terrible' year, you need God. Because as cheesy as it sounds, all the bad stuff seems insignificant when you give it to God and can have Him to throw it on. He never tires of being by your side, of listening to you and the thing that gets me is that He has felt everything I have and understands it all.

I could have wished things differently and wanted things to work out differently but I know that there is a purpose to each and every event that took place.

I may not have felt like I achieved much this year in certain areas, but I know that God sees the bigger picture and that 2010 isn't just another year in my life, but is a year of huge purpose.

Goodbye 2010 and bring on a new year with more things to learn, a God to hunger and thirst for even more and a year to be even more thankful for despite every challenge that awaits.