Anniversary

I was in my backyard last night playing fetch with Brady and I realized that the crooked tree was starting to bloom again. Since that was what this blog started with a year ago I knew that it must be pretty close to the anniversary of my musings being made public! Turns out, I was right...I started this blog on March 19, 2007 and I'm within a week of that day a year later.

It's funny to me how much this last year has held. It's been a time of great growth and great struggles. In the months surrounding my thirtieth birthday I've sensed that God is breaking apart my very soul to recreate me in ways that I only hope more greatly reflect His consistent faithfulness and presence in my life. I feel as though all the days that I have lived through now have in some ways simply been preparing me for things that are to come. While they all have held their special joys and sorrows I find myself realizing that in the faithful walk I strive to have that the future holds ever more promise and the past ever less hold.

So, as I pause to remember those things that have come through the last year I can only be thankful that God has chosen to walk with me through them. I do not know that I would have made it through this last year without Him and I wouldn't have any desire to try. However, standing on the other side of some pretty large canyons that He has helped me cross over I feel that every day that I've had and every day that is to come are nothing more than a time of growing ever closer to the Lord that I have never loved more than I do now.

For all you readers out there I also say thank you - for not completely giving up on me in my times of silence. Truthfully there have been many more posts that I've started that have never made it out here but the fact is the challenge of finding words has never been more interesting to me than it is right now. So, I'm still here, still thinking, and planning to be writing.

A happy anniversary celebration for this blog and here's to many more!