a Heart's Ramblings.

2015 ::   looking ahead... So, these are more my goals, or "resolutions", of the new year... but firstly, I wanted to make sure to put into writing:   I'm looking forward to good things from God this year.  After last year's "no-norm" craziness and all, I can get discouraged thinking of what a whole new year has in store for us.  But I want to remember that I have SO very much to be grateful for entering this year.  He delights in giving His children good things, though sometimes we need to be drawn through times of need to realize it.  He takes away.  But He also gives.  And I'm excited to see what He has for me in the next twelve months - because no matter what, I have Him.  I have His friendship, His Kingship in my life, His LOVE. Read.   This is something I want to do a lot of this year.  I really regret falling out of the habit of reading good books over the past couple years, and want to make sure I make time for it in 201...

"Isn't it funny how day by day, nothing changes, but when you  look back  everything is different..." -C. S. Lewis 2014 ::  year in review... Last year kept me whirling... Having Nana Parish with us and selling her house, Mom's mom dealing with cancer/surgery, Bryant in the Philippines, all my photography (particularly wedding) gigs, Monique's family's accident, and Zach's last year of nursing school (as well as other things that entailed...) are some of what comes to mind the most prominently when I think of last year.  A very full year, yes? =)  Although I never wrote it on here, journaling and cultivating thankfulness were my two goals for 2014.  Thankfulness, because I was feeling so self-pitying at the end of 2013, and knew that I was going to need a more thankful spirit for me to be able to pull out of that. Nana had come to live with us by then, Mama was gone ALL the time with her mom physically (thus, schooling was kind of on the bac...