Reflections on 2014
Ah, its that time of year again. The time when we all beat ourselves up for the things we didn't accomplish in the past year and impose incredibly impossible resolutions on ourselves for the coming year. Almost exactly a year ago, I decided enough was enough. I didn't make any resolutions last year at all, except for the idea that I wanted to improve in 2014. I wanted to look back at the year's end and think, I may not have checked off all the boxes, but look how I've grown as a person! And so I did. This year was a seemingly quiet one, full of working, schedules, first-time-tax-filing, and budgets. Lots and lots of budgets. a couple months ago, I stood on the edge of a metaphorical cliff and jumped. I stopped living the shadow of my own fears and maybes and made a decision. I knocked on a door and asked God to open it only if he wanted it open. Guess what? He did. (more on that another time.) In the area of Bible reading, I once again didn't make it