We are entering into 2023, so HAPPY NEW YEAR! I enter every new year filled with excited anticipation, wondering what will happen that year. The same is true this year. I wonder what adventures and changes will come my way. I hope everything will be wonderful, but I know that there may be some challenges along the way. What I hope most of all is that the events of the last few years have taught us to appreciate every day, so I want to begin 2023 with a message about how our mindset affects the events of our lives:
A beautiful day begins with a beautiful mindset.
When you wake up, take a second to think about
what a privilege it is to simply be alive and healthy.
The moment you start acting like life is a blessing,
I assure you it will start to feel like one.
Time spent appreciating is time well spent.
–unknown—
This year my husband and I will be starting the new year going on a trip with our nephew, Benji. What we have done with our nieces and nephews upon their high school graduation is take them on a 10-day trip to where they wish to go. Benji actually graduated from high school last June, but he didn’t want to travel then, so we are traveling now between his college semesters. He requested to go to the Grand Canyon in Arizona and other national parks in Utah and then to the Hoover Dam and Las Vegas for this trip, so that is what we are doing. Each of these trips has allowed us to spend one-on-one time with each niece and nephew before their lives take them elsewhere.
This means that I am guaranteed at least one adventure in 2023. None of us knows what the future holds, but I truly hope that we know that God is with us no matter what happens. Through all ups and downs, God is beside us watching over us. Being a child of God doesn’t make us immune to brokenness, pain, or hardship, but it means that we have an anchor to hold us in the midst of a storm. That is a promise that holds me steady no matter what I go through.
May this New Year truly be a blessing to you!
Pastor Beth
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