Bring on the New Year

2006 is about to end. I’m not disappointed. This has been a long, hard year filled with losses and disappointments. It hasn’t been with out its’ good times too, but overall it has kinda sucked. The deaths, the losses, the friends leaving, the fear and doubt, the lonliness, the church groups ending… it really has been hard. There have been a couple points this year when I was really unsure if I was going to make it. But, here I am at the end of it. I guess I made it.

Last night we hade some old friends over and I have to tell you, it was probably one of the best evenings I have had in all of 2006. To be honest, I was a little nervous. There is a lot of history with this other couple that had made things a little weird for awhile and there had been a significant amount of time that we had completely lost touch with them. In the past few weeks they had contacted us several times wanting to get together. Once they arrived last night and we started talking they told us why; they said they had read our Christmas letter and were so overwhelmed reading about all that had gone on this year that they wanted to see how we were doing.  We were totally shocked! We spent the next few hours talking, venting, crying, sharing deeply of the pain and frustration we have been dealing with. It was so good to do this. I have had the opportunity to talk to a couple friends through out this year and Jim has his best friend, Rob, in California who he talks to regularly on the phone and I know Rob has been been very supportive. But it was so nice to have people in the same room with us… and then they did something that absolutely undid me; they prayed for us. They didn’t ask, “What can we pray for…” They had been listening as we talked and then they just took us to Father’s throne and interceeded for us. It was like a sweet spring rain falling on my parched soul. This was no “magic” prayer session… there was no big dramatic ‘prayer voice’ or no speaking in tongues or prophetic words or high emotion kind of stuff. It was just two people whose hearts had been burdened for us going to Father for us and with us.

After they left, Jim and I were talking about the evening and he shared that he had felt the same way when they prayed for us. We were trying to figure out when the last time someone had sat with us and prayed for us like that. It was more than 6 months ago. It was Wayne Jacobson, in May, in our living room. Before that… 2 years ago in Cincinnati. No wonder it felt so good. It was weird. I can’t really explain it I just know that I miss it. Thanks, Phil & Meeshy, for hearing the Spirit’s call and for following His direction. You will never know how much last night meant to us.

So, off we go into 2007. The proverbial “New Year’s Resolutions” taunt me. I think back to last year’s resolutions. They didn’t go so well. I was supposed to have some accountbility for last year’s but that didn’t happen at all. So… I guess I’ll try again. What’s the old saying… “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.”

Here I go. Again.

~ by syndie on December 30, 2006.