Happy New Year
December 31, 2008
Well, the planned work for the day is ended and I am preparing to embark on the “honey-do” list that is awaiting me at home. Our usual plan to have a few friends over for dinner on New Year’s Eve has become a quiet evening at home for our family. We’ll watch some movies and welcome the year together… if we stay up that late.
As I look back, 2008 has been a year mixed with joy and sadness.
- I said goodbye to one appointment and said hello to another.
- I became involved in a ministry through my new church that has changed my life and challenged my assumptions about poverty and hunger.
- I’ve been overwhelmed by the acceptance and encouragement in this new appointment.
- I’ve said goodbye to friends and parishoners as they have joined that great cloud of witnesses.
The Lord has been good to us in this year and we are thankful for that. Our daughter has entered a performing arts magnet school and is doing quite well.
As 2008 comes to a close, there is a sense of anticipation of what the new year will bring. Whatever happens, I know we’ll make it through because God is with us. My prayer is that we will grow in our relationship with God through Christ and that we can share this relationship with others.
May you all have a blessed new year.
January 1, 2009 at 2:02 am
Happy New Year!, Wayne. I enjoy reading you and I hope you will continue to post often in 2009. I know you don’t know it, but many of your posts have truly lifted my soul and made me stop and think on the Pilgrimage we are on.
January 1, 2009 at 9:35 am
Thanks Keith. I still don’t know what course this will take in the time to come, but comments such as yours encourage me to continue. Blessings, Wayne
January 5, 2009 at 2:11 pm
Happy New Year, Wayne. May the coming year bring you many blessings!