2012

I want to apologize for my unexplained absence.

You see, I gave up on 2011 about two weeks early. It’s hard to imagine now, but my flame of hope was a mere whisper, like a wick that has already begun to smolder. Dark, I know. Again, sorry. I literally couldn’t help myself.

Christmas was a pick-me-up, but its effects didn’t last very long. In fact, on the car ride home, I started to sink inside again. Until…

A near car accident – and when I say ‘near’ I mean near – woke me up to the fact that God’s not done with me yet. If He was, my Daniel and I had definitely been dead.

Sounds morbid, I guess, but I see it as quite the opposite. It was precisely the spark my smoldering wick needed. Without any other change in circumstances, I suddenly began to hope again. And it’s a hope that has lasted. I actually expect 2012 to be stellar.

This short but poignant experience helped me look at things from a different perspective.

Bottom line, I’ve got to start taking God at His Word.

So that’s my New Year’s resolution, as it were. To take God at His Word.

I pray God’s will, His great and perfect will, for you and your life in 2012, Dry Ground friends!