"To lead the orchestra, you have to turn your back on the crowd." - Max Lucado
Monday, July 11, 2011
My thoughts on 2010
Here is a post that I typed in December of 2010 recapping the year. I never posted it for some reason so I thought I would post it now.
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"As 2010 walk out the door and 2011 walks in I can't help but look over the last year. It certainly has been a wild ride on the emotional side of things. A lot happened, lessons were learned, comfort zones were stretched, and I grew mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually.
Just thinking over the bigger things that happened it is really amazing to see how through out the whole year God was at work and His hand was guiding us through each month.
At the beginning of June I had a follow up session with my hoof trimming coach which was great. Then a coupe weeks later my Mom, Aunt, sister and I went to Ohio to meet with some friends and meet for the first time some other close friends.
July was probably the hardest month of the year. A lot happened in a short amount of time and it was a very hard month. I changed a lot over the course of the next two months. I wouldn't change those months for the world in terms with how I grew and how I learned to rely on my Heavenly Father for my every need. But I can't say that the situations with which He used to teach me that lesson were my favourite though.
In August I started working at a local Chinese restaurant. That in and of itself provided a lot of learning experiences. I learned how to trust God in everything, from working with people who I didn't know, to answering the phone and taking orders, running a cash register, cooking, etc etc. I guess you could say one of the only things I didn't have to learn was how to wash dishes and wipe tables ;) But even in doing those things there was still different ways of doing them.
September brought my birthday and then October I participated in my very first Parelli Natural Horsemanship lesson day. I wasn't as nervous as I thought I would be seeing as this was the first time that my horse and I were together with an instructor there watching, two actually. Everything went extremely well and I learned a lot.
November was November... not a whole lot happened. It was hard to adjust to playing and riding in smaller spaces again seeing as I has just spend two weeks where everyday my horse and I were riding and playing in huge spaces and advancing a lot. The main lesson I learned from all that was that even when we don't understand, we still need to trust God. He knows what He is doing.
December was a fairly good month. I enjoyed Christmas shopping for my family. Work continues to go well. I have learned that even though I do not like beginnings, they are something that come up every day in big and little ways.
So I look forward to 2011 and all the new things God has in store for me.
May you always know the depth, height, width, and length of His love for you,
~Keri-Lynn"
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"As 2010 walk out the door and 2011 walks in I can't help but look over the last year. It certainly has been a wild ride on the emotional side of things. A lot happened, lessons were learned, comfort zones were stretched, and I grew mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually.
Just thinking over the bigger things that happened it is really amazing to see how through out the whole year God was at work and His hand was guiding us through each month.
At the beginning of June I had a follow up session with my hoof trimming coach which was great. Then a coupe weeks later my Mom, Aunt, sister and I went to Ohio to meet with some friends and meet for the first time some other close friends.
July was probably the hardest month of the year. A lot happened in a short amount of time and it was a very hard month. I changed a lot over the course of the next two months. I wouldn't change those months for the world in terms with how I grew and how I learned to rely on my Heavenly Father for my every need. But I can't say that the situations with which He used to teach me that lesson were my favourite though.
In August I started working at a local Chinese restaurant. That in and of itself provided a lot of learning experiences. I learned how to trust God in everything, from working with people who I didn't know, to answering the phone and taking orders, running a cash register, cooking, etc etc. I guess you could say one of the only things I didn't have to learn was how to wash dishes and wipe tables ;) But even in doing those things there was still different ways of doing them.
September brought my birthday and then October I participated in my very first Parelli Natural Horsemanship lesson day. I wasn't as nervous as I thought I would be seeing as this was the first time that my horse and I were together with an instructor there watching, two actually. Everything went extremely well and I learned a lot.
November was November... not a whole lot happened. It was hard to adjust to playing and riding in smaller spaces again seeing as I has just spend two weeks where everyday my horse and I were riding and playing in huge spaces and advancing a lot. The main lesson I learned from all that was that even when we don't understand, we still need to trust God. He knows what He is doing.
December was a fairly good month. I enjoyed Christmas shopping for my family. Work continues to go well. I have learned that even though I do not like beginnings, they are something that come up every day in big and little ways.
So I look forward to 2011 and all the new things God has in store for me.
May you always know the depth, height, width, and length of His love for you,
~Keri-Lynn"
Chistlike Clockwork
I bought this particular watch last June while in Ohio for a couple weeks and it hasn't stopped ticking yet, except for the occasional times when the dial gets pulled out a little, but other than that it keeps ticking on. It has been through a lot of rough treatment in a year but it is still ticking.
So when I am at work, can I be that consistent? When I am going through a challenging time and have a lot on my mind, can I be that consistent? No matter what happens in my life, no matter what happens in each day if somebody is right brain, if someone is asking "Why should I?", if a family member is having a bad day, can I be the calm, consistent friend, sister, daughter for whom they are looking?
You know what the answer is? I can't. I can't in and of myself be that consistent. I can't by my own strength because I am human. I have a sin nature. Try as I may I will fail. We are human, we aren't perfect so we will have days when things don't run like clockwork and we get frustrated, upset, confused, worried, and anxious. But there is hope... by the power of Christ Jesus I can be calm with everything around me is whirling by. He will be all that we need. When we are weak, He is strong. "My strength is made perfect in weakness." (2 Corinthians 12:9). He will be my strength, He will be my consistency, He will be my peace when life isn't peaceful, no matter what, He is perfect and since He is in me I don't have to worry, be upset, anxious or bothered.
When life gets rough and you feel like somebody is twirling you around a 100mph, remember this, the God who created you, the God who gave His only Son to die on the cross for your sins and my sins, is waiting with out stretched arms for us to come to Him and find everything that we need, and so much more!
We may not have all the answers but by the grace of God we can be for others what they need us to be. We can't be consistent with out Christ. Just like my watch in and of itself would not tick if it wasn't for the battery. Christ is our battery. He is the one that keeps us going when every thing seems to be pulling us down, He is the one that keeps us on track when it would be so easy to stray off the straight and narrow path. He is our all so run to Him and allow Jesus Christ to work in your life today. Allow Him to have each and every part of you, holding nothing back, then and only then will we be able to be consistent even when everything else, everyone else, isn't.
Safe in His loving hands,
~Keri-Lynn
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