Strange, but I feel like we started 2019 with a deep breath. A good breath. Looking at our schedules at the end of 2018 it would look like we hit the year running...and maybe we did...but we've prioritized and it has been good. 2018 was a year for community and I just love reflecting back over the past 12 months, seeing how that community has developed. New friends, solidifying relationships with old friends, getting to know teachers at school, continuing with dinners in my cooking club, deepening our engagement with families in the AWANA program, hosting a "Lifegroup" through our new church, implementing pieces of our farm plan, and establishing our place in the community...a place that we hope is welcoming and warm.
This year will be a year to reflect. Reflect on priorities, reflect who we want to be, reflect.
This year will be spent with less mindless survival more moments stopping, reflecting on where we were, where we are, and where we might go. I love that life has seasons. Sometimes you just "gotta get through" and sometimes you just have to be a bit "mindless" as a Mom...but not this year...this year I'm going to see things differently, deeper, more slowly...
And reflect...I hope that I reflect Someone greater, reflect love, reflect compassion, reflect grace...
Here we go, into 2019...albeit running...but with a cadence of peace...a cadence I can keep up with...a different cadence than before.
