It’s a unique reflection. A whole year at a time. Not the way we usually look back.
Or forward, which I find particularly foreboding.
Reflecting on 2011, I imagine myself one year ago today. Had I known all that was to come, good and bad, I think like Scrooge when faced with Marley’s declaration of the three spirits’ imminent visits, I would have replied, “I think I’d rather not.”
But thankfully, I didn’t know. Like all my other years, I lived it one day at a time.
That’s a good thing.
Our years are full of joys and sorrows, expected and the un. It would be a burden too great to bear to know ahead all that was to come.
So as I reflect, I enjoy the clarity of hindsight. How it reveals in truth what before was only known by faith.
And I remind myself I will sit here again one year from now making some sense of all that has passed in 2012.
I look back with gratitude and forward with hope.
And begin a New Year.
One thank-full and faith-full day at a time.
Happy New Year, you gorgeous woman, you. Thank you so much for the well-wishes. You're in my prayers for recovery. I fully understand that "pushing through", and the joy of houseguests. Dare I say it's worth the pain (most times). I have some hopes and dreams for this coming year that I brought before the Lord this morning, and your post here was so encouraging "one day at a time". Thank the Lord, and you, Kim, for allowing God to use you to speak to me this morning. Ok then, here we go. xx
"we walk by faith, not by sight…"
You made an interesting point about looking back to see "in truth what before was only known by faith." It reminds me of the verse, "surely goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life." I often wonder about the word "follow." It often seems to me that it is in hindsight that I see His goodness and mercy revealed. Not that I don't have it in the midst of trial, but I don't SEE it. I am, as you said, in the faith part of the journey.
Thanks for your prayers, and your encouraging words, both here and over at my place. I needed them.
Good insight and great thoughts to ponder, I left an answere to your comment about Celebrating over at my blog, Happy New Year, and A joyful Epiphany!