Goodbye 2019…….

 Goodbye 2019…..

A quick update as we head into a new season.

Another year gone. As I begin to plan big changes for 2020, I find myself still reflecting on 2019.

With each year that come life brings so many changes.

Some good.

Some bad.

Some things change so gradual we barely notice them at the time and then when we look back everything is different.

Our year had it all, tremendous sorrow, joy, battles and routine.

In 2019, we celebrated the birth of our 1^st grandchild Tyler Rosemary. My daughter, son-in law and young granddaughter moved to Idaho suddenly.

Our youngest son, Isaiah is now driving and started his Senior year in High School. It will be our last year with a child in school. He is becoming quite the young man!

We lost my aunt Carol, my mom’s sister to cancer after a long battle. This comes right on the heels of her son (my cousin) Pat passing away just a few short months earlier. They are both missed by so many, so much! She re-dedicated her life to the Lord in her last few months and I have no doubt she is in heaven with Pat and healthy again!

While our family was still mourning their loss, my uncle Larry, my mom’s brother passed away suddenly from an unknown heart issue. To say it was a blow is putting it mildly.

Our family is still feeling the effects of them all being gone and I don’t think I have prayed for God’s comfort and strength for all my family members this much in a long time.

I promised transparency in my blog so I will share that I developed for the first time in my life high blood pressure. I have spent several months trying to adjust and get everything under control.

Brian had a fluke sledding accident and bent back both thumbs. Yikes! While it wasn’t anything that required surgery, he is still healing almost a year later.

We had a trusted friend and business associate bring legal action against us as we had to make some tough business decisions this last year. We have loved this person and his family for over 15 years (still do) and pray for them daily. I will write more about this in the future but let me say God is a mighty defender!

I put my Real Estate license on referral status as I had to admit I didn’t really like real estate sales all that much.

I started a part-time job at our church in the Children’s Ministry. I have been blessed to be part of this ministry and have really enjoyed my time there but I am stepping down from the position to begin to focus on our changes coming in 2020….. and write more!

I continued as always to do all the administrative work for our small construction company.

Our family has made the decision to move out of state.   Coming…..

And lastly,

I started this BLOG! I began to write about life and holding onto God.

As I reflect on these life events this last year, I see it all. The incredible heartbreak in the loss of our beloved family members, the joy of a healthy first grandchild. The adjustment to my daughter and her family’s move. A legal battle. A growing son. A job change. The start of a ministry. And on and on…..

All these changes, decisions, events, ups, downs, good and bad, all in 12 months.

No wonder we need “An Anchor”.

Through prayer and invitation, not one of these events happened without God being woven right into the middle of it!

A DAY HEMMED IN PRAYER IS LESS LIKELY TO UNRAVEL.

I know everyone has experienced ups and down this last year, nothing stays the same.

I do not know what 2020 will bring. Life is so uncertain, I do know that we are not to live in fear and The Bible tells us God has good plans, so I will go with that!

I only know one thing for certain for this coming year, I will choose not to go it alone…

Whatever may come, you will find me holding on tight to MY ANCHOR. 

I hope you do too!

On to a new season.

“FOR LAST YEAR’S WORDS BELONG TO LAST YEAR’S LANGUAGE AND NEXT YEAR’S WORDS AWAIT ANOTHER VOICE”. TS Eliot

2019-The Anchor Holds…