The New Year

Well here we are, another year down and a new one has begun. So there are 2 questions that keep rolling over in my mind:

1. What did 2010 bring?
Well initially I want to get angry and say not a whole lot.

But I know that is not the truth that God wants me to see. I am healthy, I have a home and I have food and water, I have a very patient man that I love and who loves me as my husband. Most importantly I have the Lord...and that should be enough! But I am human and therefore in my little brain I want more.

Brian and I have longed to have a family of our own for 3 years now. God took our 2nd baby to be with him back in March. I would have had that child in December. I try not to focus on that, but it is hard.

2. What is in store for 2011?
I am not sure. It will have its challenges, but I know this is going to be a life changing year for us.

New Years Resolutions?
I don't particularly make any. But I want to make some goals for myself just so that I have something to look to and look back at to see how I did.

1. Study God's Word more!
2. Read more period
3. Find peace and contentment
4. Pick back up my flute (I used to play in middle school, it is something I definitely wish I kept up doing.)

So how am I doing on day 1 you ask?
well I have started the Beth Moore book Breaking Free. I really want to challenge myself to trust God more and break free of what holds me back.

And a few weeks ago I did start looking at my flute notes, so hopefully I will continue to do that.

Adoption Update
Brian and I still have a bit of reading to do. We did start the online training and have made it through the longest part of it. It is put on by the National Council for Adoption and is a Hague training. For those not familiar Hague is a governing body that protects children from being sold into adoption. And I am sure there are other protections it has that I am not as familiar with since Uganda is not Hague accredited. That being said some of this training is not as pertinent for us since Uganda is not accredited and alot of the information is pointed towards China and Eastern European countries. But we are nearing the end of a ton of online reading. So hopefully we are on the downhill part of that and we can get some things turned in so we can get this show on the road.

Please ask me regularly how I am doing on my Bible reading and my book reading.
Challenge me family and friends, I need it!

Here's to a great 2011!