New Year

How do you eat an elephant?
One bite at a time.

What great advice that is. I was standing in our living room just a few days ago, staring at all the boxes and feeling very overwhelmed at all the work to be done, when Ethan brought home two extra pairs of hands from church to help find the living room floor. After they had gone, I had a lot more motivation to clean.

This is a new year with new challenges - all unseen at this moment in time. I hope this year will be a better one for my faith. It has waned more than once over this last year, but in spite of my depression, doubt, and faithlessness, God remained true to form, and cared for us. Made me think of the verse:

Every good and perfect gift comes from the Father of Lights, in whom there is no variableness, nor shadow of turning.

No matter what circumstances I walk through, nothing will show me a side of God that will be disappointing. No matter What lens of life I look at him through, it will always reveal a good Father with good intentions for my life, and the lives of those around me. I cannot be disappointed with such perfect love.

Oh Father, your love for me is ungrasped at this moment in time. Help me to comprehend the love you have for me, so that I may in turn love others the way I have been loved.