A New Year

A new start.

God in his graciousness makes life interesting. For that I am thankful! I love change and different things and new things. I get grouchy when I'm doing the same things over and over. I'm a type B person. Organization eludes and frustrates me. The first thing that usually happens when I walk into a clean room is a mess!

In my previous posts I noted how I was freakishly organizing and cleaning and straightening. Weird. For me. I was keeping myself busy. Just FYI, for me that's a sign of all isn't well.

At any rate enough is enough.

On New Year's Eve we had friends over. We weren't planning on staying up until midnight... But we started playing a game and time flew. As we finished the game and started saying our good byes, we noticed that it was 11:53... 7 more minutes and we could spend Midnight together. Sure, why not? So as we were passing the last 7 minutes of the New Year, we started talking and we were discussing next week's Sunday School lesson that they were teaching.

As luck (actually God) would have it, we needed to consult the Bible about which verses for sure. I went and grabbed the handiest Bible off the book shelf.

So at Midnight, the four of us were sitting around the table pouring over the word of God. How cool is that?

Cold chills flew through me as I realized that this was the first bible I owned. It was given to me by Vanessa, the friend who invited me to Youth Group. At Youth Group, I met Katie who explained who Jesus was and what he did. I didn't open that Bible until a couple months later when I accepted Christ into my heart because of those 2 friends (and some more). I read through the whole thing in about 6 months, before I moved back home. I used it for several years And then it started falling apart and got retired. That bible was replaced by another given to me by a dear friend, Jo-Mama, who gave me a more adequate understand of His Word. She is the friend that baptized me. I love her dearly! So I could probably go on and on telling you all the 'lineage' and stories of my bibles, but I'll spare you :)

So here I am. Reading in Genesis 24, the story of Isaac and Rebekah. Out of my first Bible, in the First Book, Right at straight up New Year's. God was calling me back to him. Start this year off with Me, I am the First, Through Me - you have life. Simple as that, A., simple as that. Really.

So right now I'm anxiously awaiting our friends' lesson.