2010 Year-end Reflection

How did the year go for you? I hope it brought you joy, growth, improved relationships, more patience, more faith. Let me share with you the highs and lows of my 2010.

The single best thing that happened this year is that I am alive at the end of the year! I have been face to face with death two or three times this year, but God granted me life. Perhaps there are still things I need to do. Perhaps I am not ready. Whatever it is, each breath, each movement, strength, energy, sight, ability to hear - these are all gifts I took for granted, but not anymore. For me, each day now is precious, to be lived to the fullest.

One thing that brought me joy this year is that I still got a job in spite of my limitations, and that my employers thought I am still valuable. My pay may not be much, but this gave my confidence a boost. The best part of my job? Payday!:)

Did I grow? I'd like to think I did - but this has to be confirmed by my children and husband. I believe I am easier to live with this year, not stressed of every little thing that went awry. I thought first before I speak - most times anyway and thus avoided the harsh words that used to plague me and caused troubles and heartaches.

This year, I managed to shed off ten pounds, I can celebrate! Fifteen more to go!

The best spiritual lesson I got this year: Humility. And wow, the pruning process is really painful!

(Photo of one of the trees in Geneva,Switzerland. They are pruned in the fall perhaps to keep the foliage from getting out of hand.)

"Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and mometary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal." 1Cor 4: 16-18