A year of new things. Happy New Years.

Christmas has gone just as quickly as it came and I sit here at my computer awaiting a new year that is only a half a day away.

It will be a new year full of new adventures, new faces, new memories, new lessons to be learned and new hardships to overcome. I know these things await, yet we (my handsome husband and I) have no idea what these words actually mean or the weight that they hold. Something that I personally could sit and fear. Yet worrying myself for the future is futile. I have learned this already.

I suppose now is the time to look back in retrospect. I think of all the amazing places we have been, adventures we have had, new faces we have met, lots of memories and even those hardships. I have learned no matter what the situation we are all the more refined in those beautiful things. This makes me excited for the new year.

I read something this morning that caught my attention and made me think about the new year that is looming as time ticks. "let’s try to create awesome things. step outside our boundaries. be positive. be adventurous. be healthy. not be too hard on ourselves. discover new things we love doing. not procrastinate as much as we did last year. and focus on facing some of those things that make us anxious." And to that I simply say yes. Yes, please. 


As I have made a huge step in marrying the man I love, my life will be forever changed. I spoke with him last night about priorities. Something I realized, quickly for that matter, changed with a simple "I do". What once was a very selfish frame of mind has quickly been tweaked and poked and prodded to become a imperfectly self-less frame of mind. I realized my priorities have changed for the better. I haven't quite honed in on what those priorities are but the simple knowing of those priorities in question have changed my life. I do not simply live for myself or to better myself in a particular area in this world. I live for a God who loves me, a husband who would risk his life and family and friends that are more dear to me now than I ever thought possible. What I do in the interim of time in living for the above, will only be a blessing to me in some way shape or form. I have hope in this. And will quickly learn that a life lived this way will bring me more joy than I could ever know. 


I pray I never lose sight of this.