How Did We Get Here?!

Every Christmas, I ask myself the same question..."How did we get here again?"  It seems like time passes so quickly.  And now I am 30!  Seriously?  I just can't believe it some days.  Other days, like last week, I ran outside for two days straight and thought I would need a cane the next day for how bad my joints hurt...concrete is not my friend these days.  Anyway, I sit around every Christmas and listen to my Grandma reminisce about those "old" days...the Christmas I was born, how tiny I was, the crazy things I did and said as a little bit...and I can't imagine how all these years have passed.  I look at my mom and dad's eyes and see  wonder reflected as they watch my siblings and I interact as adults.  I know they must be thinking about how fast time has passed...and yet, so much has happened.  

I was thinking about this past year and all that has happened...

I started my fourth year of teaching...yep that's right...thank you TN for counting those 2 years in GA!

I loved on some kids (at school, at church, in homes)

I taught some little kids some great theology...Jesus is weird but cool.

My friends had little gifts of children

Everybody turned a year older :)

New teachers came to our school who are now new friends

My Spanish has been tested beyond belief

I met some pretty neat people this year ;)

Worked another season at Smokies Baseball Park

My brother and his wife had their first child...what a blessing Miley is to our family!  :)

And I am sure there is much more...take time to reflect today...the things listed above may seem ordinary to you...it may not have been my most "exciting" year, but God teaches us through all things.

I see new life...I see love...I see learning...I see life being lived.  Jesus calls us to that...allowing God to make the ordinary extraordinary...

So here's to a new year...of new life, of love, of learning, of living with a renewed spirit...seeing ordinary things as God sees them.