What I have wanted to say
I have spent some time reading through my favorite blogs and re-engaging in the world. I have yearned to share the growth that has been taking place in my life this past two years. But it is so very personal and it just wasn't the right thing to do. There are some things that I think would be good and appropriate to share and others not so much. I think in time I will be led to those things that should be shared and I wait patiently for that time and revelation.
I feel so compelled to point in this direction tonight. I don't even know this woman personally - we have never met. But I have followed her blog, her life, like many others for a very long time. I always liked/loved what she had to say. But now, as I read her year in review, I feel a deep kinship with her. These are things that have been deep in my heart and spinning around in my mind for months now. Perhaps had I been keeping up with her daily blogging I would not have felt so isolated, so confused, so obsessed. I, too, have experienced this internal growth in the past year and kept it mostly in my heart to ponder and knew that I had been called to have a time alone to walk beside Jesus in a desert of life in the year prior. I, too, held my daughters (and a son) close while they experienced profound hurt and healing. What I am never going to tell you and Gentleness in the Real World speak to my heart with such healing and hope!!! Uncluttering and midlife - LOL - well, I'm still there!! I certainly have been contemplating just how this is going to look and I don't think I can do it in a single day. My youngest just turned 11 and the baby things have been gone for some time but I have been replacing some things for our first and only grandchild (in hopes that there will be many more!).
Courage, Encouraging, Maintaining key friendships - yes, yes, yes!!!! Thank you, Elizabeth, for reaching into the depths and sharing honestly with us. We will most likely never meet in person but my prayers will be with you and your family. I thank God that He has found such a beautiful, sweet and humble servant in you.
As we say goodbye to 2011, I welcome the new year with enthusiasm and hope. My heart is full of joy and my soul is truly at peace. God is so good!
Happy New Year! May you be Blessed in ways you never imagined!!
Susan
"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you... to give you hope and a future."
Jeremiah 29:11
I feel so compelled to point in this direction tonight. I don't even know this woman personally - we have never met. But I have followed her blog, her life, like many others for a very long time. I always liked/loved what she had to say. But now, as I read her year in review, I feel a deep kinship with her. These are things that have been deep in my heart and spinning around in my mind for months now. Perhaps had I been keeping up with her daily blogging I would not have felt so isolated, so confused, so obsessed. I, too, have experienced this internal growth in the past year and kept it mostly in my heart to ponder and knew that I had been called to have a time alone to walk beside Jesus in a desert of life in the year prior. I, too, held my daughters (and a son) close while they experienced profound hurt and healing. What I am never going to tell you and Gentleness in the Real World speak to my heart with such healing and hope!!! Uncluttering and midlife - LOL - well, I'm still there!! I certainly have been contemplating just how this is going to look and I don't think I can do it in a single day. My youngest just turned 11 and the baby things have been gone for some time but I have been replacing some things for our first and only grandchild (in hopes that there will be many more!).
Courage, Encouraging, Maintaining key friendships - yes, yes, yes!!!! Thank you, Elizabeth, for reaching into the depths and sharing honestly with us. We will most likely never meet in person but my prayers will be with you and your family. I thank God that He has found such a beautiful, sweet and humble servant in you.
As we say goodbye to 2011, I welcome the new year with enthusiasm and hope. My heart is full of joy and my soul is truly at peace. God is so good!
Happy New Year! May you be Blessed in ways you never imagined!!
Susan
"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you... to give you hope and a future."
Jeremiah 29:11
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