Praise Party 2013...

So I read my friend Michelle's blog yesterday on kicking off 2014 and it got me thinking.  While out shoveling snow today, I had some time to reflect on 2013.  Seems as I gear up for 2014, I get focused on all the things I plan to do but I don't want to miss the opportunity to reflect on all He has done!  Thanks Michelle for the inspiration!


Psalm 89:1 - I will sing of the LORD's great love forever; with my mouth I will make your faithfulness known through all generations.


Father, I want to praise you for the ways that you reveal yourself to me in so many ways...

1.  Last year at this time, I was getting ready to have foot surgery.  Thank you for teaching me (and still am) how to depend on others.  You blessed me with amazing friends and family who drove me around when I couldn't drive, dropped off meals, stopped by for visits, and made me feel loved.

2.  Thank you for my crazy nursing job...a year ago I definitely wasn't feeling this way and had actually applied for a year long job overseas...but I'm beginning to see Your working and am excited for what lies ahead.

3.  Thank you for the opportunity to serve as a CASA here in my own community.  It's been awesome, frustrating, challenging and so much more, but love the little piece I get to play in these kids and their families lives.  

4.  So blessed by the opportunity to travel to Brazil and serve with CBM...what a great opportunity to see the world, serve with some truly amazing people, touch lives by meeting physical/spiritual needs and once again gain some much needed perspective on my life here in the States.

5.  Thank you for recovery from my stress fracture and the chance it gave me to step back and gain a little perspective.  Failure isn't the end, just the start of the next beginning.

6.  Blessed to have the opportunity to mentor one of the younger girls at our church and build relationships with several of them just spending time investing in them.  

7.  Thank you for grace, forgiveness, and second chances...the ways I learned a little bit more about myself this year...the good, bad, and everything in between...but thankful that I don't have to stay the same but can allow You to work in me to be all that You desire.  

8.  Thank you that in all those moments that I felt like it was me taking on the world alone, I wasn't...you were there the whole time and it was just me thinking that I had to do it all on my own.  

9.  Thank you for old and new friends and the ways they make my life a whole lot better!

10. Thank you for my church and how I'm challenged, encouraged, and led by the men and women who make up our "community."

11.  Thank you for all the other ways you love me...

Looking forward to all that 2014 holds for me and praying to have my eyes open to all the ways God is working around me.  


Ecclesiastes 3:11
He has made everything beautiful in its time.  He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end.


Would love to hear how God has worked in your life in the last year...any takers??