our first Christmas in Oman was not the easiest... in fact... 2011 will go down in history as one of the hardest years of my life... There where so many changes and uncertainties... i just never felt like i could relax. First packing up our lives in SA... getting all the documents and papers ready to move over seas... then moving to a new country where everything is "in-sha-allah" ... to a new community where everything is different... starting over with making friends, getting use to hell like temperature and traffic... missing home, friends and family and finally having Christmas where they don't celebrate Christmas...
jip... not an easy year... but definitely a year that i won't forget... even if i want to... a year where i have been stretched... grown.... tested... and survived... well almost any way... there is after all still a few days left... 2011 will forever be the year of trails and tribulations... i am glad its almost over... now it can only get better... i hope!
what will i do with all i have learned in 2011... cherries friendships and family more... appreciate my culture (with all its faults) more... love and adore my husband more... and try and be a good parent to our little baby that will be joining us in March/April 2012...
2012 will be another year of change... a HUGE change... bigger than moving to a new country... or understanding a new culture... this change will last a lifetime! I am super excited.... but there is a part that it also super scared... will i be able to guide and love my child the way God wants me to.... what is parenting going to be like?? what is life going to be like??? Well.... i guess we will have to wait and see... all i know is that God was with me in 2011... and he WILL be there in 2012... praise God for that... without Him... i am nothing... without Him... i will fall over and over again... without HIM... 2011 would have no meaning, and 2012 would be without Hope...
hmmm.... i wonder if this is what i was suppose to write down.... and i am almost certain this post is more for me then for the few who still reads my blog...
Thank you Jesus for being in and with me all the time... even when i am not almost here with You...
1 comment:
Thanks for sharing your thoughts Marnell. It's good to hear how you've been, and to hear reminders of His faithfulness! :) Excited for you in what this new year will bring- Congratulations!
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