With 2019 wrapping up I went back and read my post from wrapping up 2018. It made me realize how much has changed in just one year. And what a lot of changes there have been! Before I get into that let me just remind you of what my word for 2019 was. This is a paragraph from the last post of 2018 that I copied and pasted below.
Anyways eventually I picked the word 'home'. Sounds a little funny but the fact is that home is not just a physical place. God is our refuge and, in the coming year, I want to really dwell on the fact that my home, my security and my identity is not wrapped up in things or places or even other people, it's all centered on God. He is my strength, my refuge, the one that supplies my every need. He is my home.
Home. How I still love that word. I did carry it through this year with me. I had to continually remember that my security and identity is in Him. It's not in the things I do, or the people that I surround myself with. There have been times, especially in the last couple of months that it's been particularly hard to remember that He supplies my every need. And yet like every other year I've been reminded that God never will let me down or give up on me. That's why He's the one that I need to find refuge in.
If I tried to tell you everything that has happened in the last year we would be here until the start of 2020. So instead I'll just hit some highlights.
I moved. Getting into our house was a miracle. We were looking for a new place, things weren't coming up. We finally had friends of my roommates offer us a place that we were going to accept. It was a great house but made for a long commute for all of us. As we were preparing to go there a house that we had looked at but hadn't been able to make work came back on the market. We have been so blessed with our new place!
I stepped down from youth ministry. After three years of working with some amazing kids and my fantastic leaders our ministry came to end this year. Our high school students had graduated and the kids coming up were in middle school. The program didn't work for the younger age group so after a lot of prayer I chose to step down as youth director so someone else could step in and run a new program for the younger kids. It was a very emotional time but I can see God's leading in that decision.
We found a new church! I've written about this before but it bears repeating. After stepping down from youth ministry one of my roommates and I decided to find a new church. A few months ago we settled on a wonderful church home where we are thriving. We have a small group we attend, a regular service we go to and soon we'll start attending a second Bible study.
I'm looking for a job. Earlier this fall the company I was working for made the very hard decision to close their doors. Almost all of the employees have now been laid off, including me. So I've been sending out resumes and going to interviews and trusting God to bring the right job in His time, not mine.
So that's my 2019. Or at least some of the highlights. 2020 is going to bring some insane changes. A few of them I already know are coming but I'm sure there will be tons I haven't seen coming. I'm not picking a word for next year. I'm just going to try enjoy it and see what God brings.
What's your 2020 bringing? Drop me a note in the comments, I'd love to hear what you're up to!
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