Happy 2014!

Yikes! It's been months since I've posted, and I'm sure that you have all forgotten about me by now. No matter, its a new year and I may (or may not) be able to recover your attention. If not, then I would be sad to not have your friendship, but attention is not really the goal of this blog.

The goal, as usual, is to document my life's findings. I find that journalling (which is, of a certain form, what I do here) is a sort of therapy to me. It gives me something productive to do with my extra time and tends to refocus my mind and soul. A form of worship that always leaves me peaceful, refreshed and with a clarity of heart that I find hardly anywhere else. It's become an addiction of mine. The new year brings a brand new, blank journal, ready for anything, waiting to be filled. And I am eager to fill it. Slowly, I do, and by the end of the year there are only a few blank pages left and that chapter of my life is closed.

I am thankful to have finally closed my journal from 2013 and to find God's mercies new for 2014. The finality and finished-ness of the past is a hopeful thing to me. Those things that have happened to better my life, I choose to take with me to the future, and the things I regret or am ashamed of, I leave behind because that is what mercy allows me to do. Freedom from the physical, taxing work of carrying those things with me is something only Christ can give and I can only receive and be thankful. Every day, be thankful.

My prayer is that those of my friends and family will find that same freedom in 2014.

As for new years resolutions...I am searching (and waiting) for a word to pursue. Prayer? Thanksgiving? I'll let you know when it becomes clear to me.

In the meantime, classes have started and somewhere in between calculus 2, biology 2, organic chemistry and intro to theater, I hope to be a better blogger for my own sake... how else am I going to stay sane with a class load like that?

Blessings and happy 2014!
Paula