Broken

As I was looking towards the New Year, and contemplating this past year, various thoughts crossed my mind.   Firstly, I'm amazed that we are starting yet another decade.   It just seemed like not too long ago we were preparing for Y2K, and here we are now about to start 2010.

This past year was nothing extraordinary.  I did seem to have some challenges since 2009 started; and throughout the year, I was dealing with being more tired than usual.  But, everything else progressed as usual.   It was, however, nice to end the year with the Panama Cruise with my family; allowing me to visit my fifth continent, South America.   So, now, I just have Africa and Antarctica left since I've been to North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia already; and then, I'd be able to say I've visited all the continents.

Recently, if I were to pick a word to describe the things in my life, I'd unfornately have to pick "broken".   I was wondering why there were so many things in my life that started breaking - my sofa, my sprinklers, my glasses, my watch, and most recently my dishwasher.   Yet, it makes me think that this may be preparing for my theme next year; that God can bring beauty from ashes (or from brokenness).   I place all things into HIS Hands, as I do my part in trying to address all these.    I look forward to seeing what He will teach me.