2k16.
Every time I click on one of my social media accounts all I seem to see is people saying how bad 2016 was, & that 2017 can't come soon enough. After shaking my head & rolling my eyes, I scroll past. 2016 was like any other year: people die, things happen that you don't agree with. The thing people are forgetting is that you have a choice how something affects you. Just like in Evan Almighty, an act of random kindness can change your world - and other people's. If you don't like something, change it.
But I digress.
2016 - God - was amazing to me this year. I don't know why as I've not been the kind of follower I need to be. But He sure has taken me to some amazing new places - 4 continents - this year: Grand Deco resort, Mt. Bandai, Japan where I learned to ski; Kyoto, Japan with some amazing Christian ladies; Phuket, Thailand; teching for a marching band; Garmish Partenkirchen, Germany for a music teacher conference, home to family in the States for Thanksgiving, and New Zealand with my mom. I couldn't be more thankful. He also helped me plan a music adjudication for multiple international schools, and let me be chosen to represent music teachers at that amazing conference in Bavaria. All this for a so-so teacher.
This year, just like any over the past 6, has brought loss, but I know that I am not in control - He is. Yes, I struggle with depression, but He still brings out the best in me.
I'm very excited to see where 2017 takes my friends, family, students, & myself.
(PS - sorry that there aren't any pictures - I'm sitting in the hotel lobby in Auckland waiting to be transported to the airport.)
(PSS - and sorry, everyone knows that I'm not a writer. 😂)
Proverbs 3:5-6
Every time I click on one of my social media accounts all I seem to see is people saying how bad 2016 was, & that 2017 can't come soon enough. After shaking my head & rolling my eyes, I scroll past. 2016 was like any other year: people die, things happen that you don't agree with. The thing people are forgetting is that you have a choice how something affects you. Just like in Evan Almighty, an act of random kindness can change your world - and other people's. If you don't like something, change it.
But I digress.
2016 - God - was amazing to me this year. I don't know why as I've not been the kind of follower I need to be. But He sure has taken me to some amazing new places - 4 continents - this year: Grand Deco resort, Mt. Bandai, Japan where I learned to ski; Kyoto, Japan with some amazing Christian ladies; Phuket, Thailand; teching for a marching band; Garmish Partenkirchen, Germany for a music teacher conference, home to family in the States for Thanksgiving, and New Zealand with my mom. I couldn't be more thankful. He also helped me plan a music adjudication for multiple international schools, and let me be chosen to represent music teachers at that amazing conference in Bavaria. All this for a so-so teacher.
This year, just like any over the past 6, has brought loss, but I know that I am not in control - He is. Yes, I struggle with depression, but He still brings out the best in me.
I'm very excited to see where 2017 takes my friends, family, students, & myself.
(PS - sorry that there aren't any pictures - I'm sitting in the hotel lobby in Auckland waiting to be transported to the airport.)
(PSS - and sorry, everyone knows that I'm not a writer. 😂)
Proverbs 3:5-6