You are Perfect in All of Your Ways.

And what a year it's been! A truly fantastic December to cap it all off and imbue myself with the hope that 2017 is going to be worth looking forward to indeed.

It really hasn't been the easiest of years (a fantastical aspiration perhaps) as I've kinda had to muddle my way through a whole bunch of stuff in almost every aspect of my life - learning to prioritize and also to cope and also to make do and to make peace with failures and disappointments. Relative successes but also their attendant, subsequent failures too - a year of pruning. Of some of these "important" things being sheared off - painfully; finally. Of coming to terms, somewhat, with God's plans for my life.

Knowing that I do not know the future, but trusting Him with it anyway.

And hopefully this sense, as the new year approaches (as the latter half of my 20s beckons.....), of a certain solidification does not end up a mere figment of my wistful imagination. This sense of things slowly coming together, at last. After a year of almost aimless striving and headlong - almost senseless even - charging into some of these things, almost by default even. That finally, there might be some ground beneath my feet at last.

And even further beneath this sense, underpinning all this, I think maybe I'm beginning too to answer the question: and what if this all comes crumbling down? The career the financial stability the relationships the cell group the whatever it is? Does the new year look good because all these things look good? Or could there be more to it than this? Maybe I'm starting to believe this not just in my head, but in my heart too.

Which perhaps has been the lesson for me throughout this whole year, or maybe even the last few years. Of learning how to let things go, and into the hands of God.

So I guess that's it for the year - see y'all in 2017!