Happy New Year!

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This has been a full year. It’s been full of surprises, disappointments, and adventures. The spring semester last year was the best I can ever remember. It even topped college. There were so many good friends and good times. The summer was a rough patch spiritually which led into the hardest semester of my life. I’ve never been ready to get home for Christmas Break like I was this year. But I have learned SO much. Here are 11 lessons learned in 2011:

1. Pray (a lot)

2. Waiting is good for you

3. God is definitely a God of surprises. It is one of my most favorite things.

4. God is incredibly faithful.

5. And a lesson I learned last night…He is acting on behalf of His children even when we have no idea what is going on.

6. “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways, acknowledge him, and He will make your paths straight.” (Prov. 3:4-5 I think)

7. I would be completely lost without my family

8. Life is not always perfect

9. I’m incredibly thankful for the wonderful friends God has given me. I can’t even express how much my friends have meant to me this semester.

10. You never know what is going to happen and it is incredible that God does.

11. Malachi is an awesome book in the Bible.

All in all it was a good year. Not easy, but good. I don’t know if I would do it over again, but thankfully I don’t have to make that decision. I wouldn’t want to have skipped it. I’ve been studying in Malachi very slowly over the last few months. Here is the verse that made me want to dig in deeper.

“But for you who revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings. And you will go out and leap like calves realeased from the stall.” Malachi 4:2

Only God knows what will happen in 2012, but I know I’m so excited!!!