Hello 2012

Happy New Year!

I'm so blessed to be here celebrating the start of another year.  I'm excited to see what 2012 brings!

I love Jesus so much!  He changed my life and I will follow Him until He calls me home.  This last year I have changed more than I ever imagined.  I got a chance to start over somewhere new.

I moved across the country to go to graduate school.  I never imagined that I actually would and was terrified.  But I discovered I had nothing to worry about.  God has a plan for me and I just needed to trust Him that everything was going to be okay.  In the last few months, I've made so many wonderful friends.  In coming back home for Christmas break, I've noticed that I have changed a lot and that it is for the better.  And I can't take the credit, it is because of Jesus.

I was broken by sins that I committed and those committed against me.  I needed to just let go of it and accept that yes, I am sinner and that I am broken.  It is what it is and I need to just get over it.  The only person who lived a perfect life was Jesus.

I grew up in a Christian family and accepted Jesus when I was 4 years old.  I thought I knew everything there was to know about "religion."  I was so wrong and my senior year of high school I walked away from God and wanted nothing to do with Him.  I struggled for the next couple of years until everything that I wanted and was living for was ripped away from me my junior year of college.  And that made me more angry, but I started going back to church and realized that God never left me.  He was waiting for me to come running back.  I slowly started to start trusting God again and going back to church.  In May this last year, I made a commitment to living for Jesus and living the pure lifestyle.  I have to admit that I've made some mistakes since then, but I have learned that I have to get up and renew the commitment to follow Jesus every day.  My desire to go back to my old lifestyle diminishes each day as I fall more in love with Jesus.

So, I'm excited to see what this year brings.  I know that I am where I need to be right now and that I must be patient to see what life brings.  I know I don't have to worry though because the Creator of the universe is in control of my life.

I guess my resolution this year is not to worry.  It doesn't do any good.

"Cast all your anxieties on Him because He cares for you." 1 Peter 5:7 NIV