A Remarkable Year

I figured I'd comment on 2011 since most people do this time of year: reflections on the past and ponderings on what lies in store for the future, mostly making resolutions (that are primarily forgotten after January's over).

As with every new year though, the promise ahead will be what we make it. Finishing unfinished goals, making dreams come true, sticking to plans, or perhaps not doing something that was causing a lifestyle of detriment.

I started a blog entry several days before Christmas. It was on being born again. I never finished it because I got side-tracked and busy, and didn't have enough time to bring it to a close. Talk about unfinished goals, lol.

My first reflection on 2011 is to thank God for being this. Born again. He is the creator of my soul, the love of my life, my whole being. Without him I am nothing.

My second reflection is to thank Him for bringing a second, new kind of life into my own. Our son, Levi. Isn't life amazing? Out of surrender to our old life comes a new life, a new birth, in Him, in the spiritual realm. We become his children. And out of the miracle of conception comes physical new life in bringing the birth of our own children.

Both, God-breathed.

With the re-found recollection of my soul's lost parts has come a love for the remembrance of my new birth in Christ, and an even deeper love for the birth of our son, who one day I pray will ask Jesus for new birth in his own heart.

2011 has been about birth, for me. With Levi coming into this world it has reminded me of so many things, but mostly about the birth of Jesus Christ and where it all started. For without Him, we would not be, our son would not be, and we would not have another "New Year" to start our recollections all over again.

I started writing a journal for Levi so he would know everything that happened when he is grown. I will leave you with a verse that someone gave to me for him, which is the exact verse that I feel reflect's Isaac, his dad's, life, and is the verse I'm going to record for him in the journal. Funny how God works.


And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man.
– Luke 2:52


If nothing else in 2012, may we grow in wisdom and stature, and have favor with God and men through Christ.