I think I just realized that I actually live here in Wrexham. My jewelry has been staying in the travel pouch that I made for the past five months. But now it has a place to live in my room, on my wall. Oh, and I had fun exploring the possibilities of old newspapers today!
Looking back at 2011
I know that Christmas is just begun, but I've been thinking about this past year and all the good things it has held for me. If I could choose one word to sum this year up, it'd be "content," because I am. Full-up to the top, cup over-flowing, cat on a pillow in a sunny window content. I haven't done anything to deserve such goodness, but I am thankful and blessed by God's generosity. Especially in terms of people.
2011 has been the year of people like no other. At one point (the 12th of November, to be specific) I felt like I didn't ever want to meet a person again because I was feeling overwhelmed after meeting 200 new people at once. But I have met more new people and enjoyed getting to discover who they are. If you're someone who I've met for the first time this year, thank you. You're awesome and I look forward to getting to know you better in the coming years. If you're an old friend, thanks for sticking around. I like life much better, knowing you.
December 2011 Playlist
In music, like so many other areas of my life, I like it better when things aren't predictable. It drives me nuts when I can tell what the next words of a song are going to be when I've never heard it before. So keeping that in mind, here's some music to celebrate Christmas with. Hopefully you'll understand why I enjoy these songs so much, once you've listened to them!
Home again, home again, jiggity jig
We just arrived home in Wales after a couple hours of driving. Have I mentioned how stressful I find driving the UK? It has nothing to do with driving on the opposite side of the road. It's more that the roads are incredibly narrow, and what would be a one lane road in America is a two lane road here. And there's loads of roundabouts. I think we went through 20 in two hours of driving. Even so, I am enjoying learning to drive.
While we drove home, we took the time to talk about all that's happened this week at King's Lodge. Since it's a school, we've made up a name for this time (Processing Time) and have four specific questions that we ask:
- What did the speaker say?
- What did it mean?
- What does it mean to me?
- What are some ways to apply what I've learned, and how can we help each other in that?
One of the thing that our speaker (Ken Helser) said was that the key to discipline is desire. In other words, if we're going to keep doing something, we've got to want it! And it so true in my life, that I'll get excited about (reading the Bible, praying, drawing, blogging, etc) and come up with all these grandiose plans to do it, but then fail. Because I had excitement, not desire. But the good thing is that I can keep asking God to give me desire, and in his grace...he'll give it. So I'll keep asking, keep seeking and keep knocking, until I see the consistency of discipline and the consistency of desire in my life!
O come, O come Emmanuel
And I desperately want Jesus to come into my life in so many different areas. I want to see Jesus in the way I relate to people. I want to see Jesus in the way that I seek the truth. I want to see Jesus in the way that I think about the future.
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