December...
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It is December today and although it is just another day in so many ways, I always find the ends and beginnings of months to bear much sentiment...
I usually find myself thinking... "Wow....it's almost another year over... what did you do with it?".... I find that these feelings are much stronger as the ball drops and the Auld Lang songs begin to play...however I often think about it early, in hopes that I may have a chance to still change some of the things I recall hoping for this year...
In a lot of ways my "year" this time began when I took my first step away from Adam in the Edmonton International Airport and headed onto my first plane of three across the world to Bangladesh...and as my term finishes here I am reflecting on both the last real year, 2009, of my life, as well as the half of this new year in my life. It is a lot to pull together. I cannot help but shake the images of some of the horrors I have seen here, as well as those warm thoughts of back home, and struggle often to reconcile my thoughts between the two... Either way I am sure of one thing.... no matter the year, no matter the hour, no matter the place, no matter the breath... God has been there, even if I have chosen not to recognize it....
Do you feel like you have grown this year? What would you have said or done differently? Would you have prayed more? Loved more? Been more compassionate? What are you waiting for? God has been waiting for you.
In Christ,
Corinne.
"Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest" (Joshua 1:9)
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Thought provoking questions (as has come to be expected!) As someone who has only been a Christian for two and a half years, I see nothing but radical change over this relatively short space of time. I feel like I've grown, and most of that I owe to the fact that I've been affected by the Truth of God's Word, the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and the Christian *experience*; all of it though, by God's immeasurable grace. Yes, I've grown, but in the light that God provides, I can see the immense need for more growth in my life, especially in the are of self-sacrifice and outward-interest (love), and in knowledge of His Word.
1) We grow so little without the Bible; the book that we may think we're reading, but in actuality it reads us. John 17:17 teaches that the Truth of God's Word sanctifies us, and that without continual, prayerful, meditative immersion in the book that reads us, we impede our sanctification. 2) We grow so little without knowledge of our sin. We never outgrow our need to hear the Gospel. If we are not close friends of repentance, there will be little or no growth at all. 3) We grow so little without suffering. If we never pick up our cross and follow after our risen Lord, we will be starved of that vital experience through which we are commanded to endure (Mat. 13:13; 2 Tim. 2:3).
Anyways, Cori, God bless you and I look forward to seeing you again in Church soon, especially standing there with my brother Adam, who has become a dear friend. I know the excitement, warmth and completion that will bring. Take care!
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