Auld Lang Syne

The last day in the year of our Lord 2019 has arrived!!!!  We made it ya’ll!!!  This is definitely cause for celebration for me, because this has been a YEAR!  You want to talk about tried by the fire?!?!?!  Yet, here I stand.  I’m grateful and humbled and amazed.

The words “auld lang syne” are Scottish and mean “old long since” when translated to English.  Basically, it means that we remember the good old days.  The time that has passed us by.  So, it’s a perfectly appropriate phrase to wrap up the end of the year.  Really, we’re wrapping up the end of a decade.

My Soul Sister and I used to have a yearly recap at the end of each year.  We’d go through each month and try to remember what happened.  Often, we would be amazed at just how much had happened in the span of 12 months.  Life would be radically different in only 365 days.

Everyone who started out this year with us didn’t make it to the end.  I’m not just talking abstractly.  People my age and members of my own family transitioned to be with the Lord.  We expect the elderly to pass away.  We think they’ve lived their life.  When the young die, it hits us differently.  It can shake our faith.

I can talk about a million things that tried to take me out in 2019, but I’m going to end this year’s series of blogs on a high note.  I have to meditate on God’s goodness.  I have to meditate on His mercy.  I have to meditate on His favor.

He has continually put people in my path this year who only want to bless me.  People who have said kind words to me.  Ya’ll have encouraged me.  You have championed me.  You have helped me to keep my eyes lifted and focused on Him.

Thanks for looking past my run-on sentences and corny jokes.  Thanks for seeing my heart and knowing that I’m just like you.  I’m doing the best that I can to live a life that will please God.

If you’re hitting the streets tonight, be careful.  I would say don’t do anything that I wouldn’t do.  But I’d do a lot of stuff that’s not Christ-like, so follow your heart child.  Maybe I should say, “Let the Lord use you.”  Because I followed my heart last New Year’s Eve and…We can’t talk about that on this blog…LOL.  My plan is to be at church.  I’m going to praise the New Year in.

I don’t know if I’ve said it before (I’m too lazy to go back through the blogs), but 2020 is going to be epic.  I’m positive that I’ve said it to people in my personal life.  I have butterflies and goosebumps at the same time.  Can you feel it????  I hope the energy is leaping off your phone or computer.  Positive winds are sweeping the atmosphere, and I hope you can feel the breeze.  The best is yet to come ya’ll.  #wepreach