New Year

I fear I may be becoming old and grumpy, as at the end of this year, indeed this decade, I couldn't feel less excited. Discussion about what the next decade should be called leaves me cold, I just got confused when all the shops were closed when I needed something, I forgot to wish anyone 'Happy New Year'...!

That's not to say I'm not looking forward to 2010: I'll continue my studies, the kids will continue to grow and develop and bring us joy, we'll go to the States to see our family and I'll get to do my placement with the House for All Sinners and Saints while we're there, P will have new challenges at work to keep him happy, both the children will start new schools in Sept, I'll begin the process of working out what my first post will be after I'm ordained...

So I am excited at the prospects that the New Year holds, it's just that tonight doesn't hold the key to those excitements and challenges and opportunities.

At the risk of sounding like I've got everything together (which I certainly haven't) I feel like I face each day, or at least each week or month, with some sense of what it brings - each month seems pregnant with opportunity. It may be because I have deadlines and a lot of structure in my life at the moment (with residentials and placements set in place throughout the year), I feel it's easy to see opportunities.

Perhaps the harder thing is to keep the sense that each moment is pregnant with possibilities - encountering God, transcending the ordinary, seeing the kingdom break loose in our world of hurt, appreciating great beauty...

I'm one for getting bogged down in the drudgery of everyday life with small children, so I think my resolution for 2010 needs to be celebrating Grace and Peace in amongst the everyday.

I was really taken with this prayer that I read on the feig blog and so it's my prayer as I enter the New Year;

For all that has been, thanks!
For all that will be, yes!

May you know Grace and Peace in 2010 and celebrate it with every breath - happy New Year!

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