Ok 2018....be kind

2017 ended in normal fashion for us.  

It started with a migraine, took my medicatgion.  By the time we headed to church for the 11 am service, the migraine had subsided and I could see straight.  The headache never subsided, but it was at least manageable.

The service was amazing.  Testimony Sunday.  I love hearing how other people walked through the fire and came out the other end.  Faith intact.  God is so faithful.

We had Max and Kristin for dinner and games, we were going to celebrate "Newfie New Years", but we missed it.  So we settled for New York New Years.  We had a shot of Stags Breath Whiskey at 9 pm and called it a night.

When I woke January 1, the headache was gone and I woke in the strangest way.  My first thought was be kind to me 2018...I mean it.

Then I realized I was sleeping in an odd position.  This might be TMI for some of you.  I woke with Kent's hand holding mine.

I was rocked back to the reality that this year has some incredibly amazing things for us.  Because we are still together, still fighting for each other, still advocating for each other.

This year, I will celebrate 30 years married to Kent.  What a milestone.  We are thrilled to be celebrating our milestone together.

This year, I will turn 50 years old.  50.  I can't even imagine.  I am not afraid of my age, obviously because I am stating it here.  When I was a child I never dreamed I would live past 30.  Every year after that has seemed like a bonus!

This year, I am working on getting myself back into shape, and I am looking forward to a healthy year.  No big surprises, no big diagnoses.

This year, I am going to be taking a more selfish approach to my time.  I will be in the gym, I will bike to and from work.  I will eat well and I will climb the Munro in Scotland that I have been planning all year.

Above all else, I will follow my life verse(s) Philippians 2: 3-11

Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.

 In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:

Who, being in very nature God,

    did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;

 

rather, he made himself nothing

    by taking the very nature of a servant,

    being made in human likeness.

 

And being found in appearance as a man,

    he humbled himself

    by becoming obedient to death—

        even death on a cross!

Therefore God exalted him to the highest place

    and gave him the name that is above every name,

 

that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,

    in heaven and on earth and under the earth,

 

and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord,

    to the glory of God the Father.

New Years Day Walk at The Lagoon, Colwood, BC