What will 2008 hold?

2005 was a tearing year - where pain and unhealth were exposed in my life

2006 was a foundation-building year, where I finally realized that I matter to God...with no question or doubt...that I'm loved without condition

2007 was a building year - building on the "mattering" theme...this time realizing that I really matter to people (and really, realizing what people I matter to....) as well as a year of freedom...accepting who I really am and actually liking myself

So...the question is, what will 2008 hold?

My goals are such (in no particular order):

• to continue to learn how to speak up for myself (heathly conflict resolution)
• to really make significant progress in getting out of debt and building a nest egg
• to press into the new things of compassion and loving others that the Lord's been impressing upon me for the past few weeks (this will require a whole post of its own....it's exciting stuff...)

But, this is what the Lord is speaking to me...and I think it's for the entire year:

Isaiah 46:3-4
"Listen to me, O house of Jacob,
all you who remain of the house of Israel,
you whom I have upheld since you were conceived,
and have carried since your birth.
Even to your old age and gray hairs
I am he, I am he who will sustain you.
I have made you and I will carry you;
I will sustain you and I will rescue you.

Isaiah 61: 7
Instead of their shame
my people will receive a double portion,
and instead of disgrace
they will rejoice in their inheritance;
and so they will inherit a double portion in their land,
and everlasting joy will be theirs.

So, it'll be interesting to see how all of this pans out and comes together. Here's to a great, stretching, building, mind-blowing, surprising year that exceeds expectations!