As I'm lounging in my bed reflecting on 2012 and everything that happened throughout the year, I can only praise God for all the ups and downs that was the 2012 rollercoaster. So, I'm going to do what most people do when the new year rolls around. I'm going to recap 2012 as best as I can and list out some resolutions for 2013.
The Recap:
1. This time last year I was counseling at HATS (Holidays At The Swamp). It was a lot of fun, including the 6 hours spent in a laundry mat. I got to form new relationships with kids and counselors.
2. On January 21, 2012 I moved to Wilmington, NC and started this blog. Not necessarily in that order, but whatever.
3. I moved in with Katie Sawhill.
4. I was a part of a mission team. Never in a million years would I have guessed I would do something like that.
5. I struggled hard core with home sickness. I talked all my life about moving out and then all I wanted was to wake up across the hall from my sister.
6. I had to take the backseat in my sister's quest for God. I wasn't at home to help here and could only take the teary phone calls from 5 hours away.
7. Wilmington had a send-off service in Raleigh, NC with all of the other NC churches. It was fun and finally happening that Wilmington families were starting to move down.
8. Summer 2012 was crazy busy. I was working pretty much 40 hour weeks and getting to go to the beach almost never. Weird, right?
9. Steve Kazella visited Hungary and came back with a flyer for the 2012 European Singles Conference. Katie and I decided to go.
10. Then campus moved back! YAY!
11. My dad asked me to move back home. I prayed about it.
12. I WENT TO BERLIN, GERMANY. Words cannot express my love for anything and everything Europe. I met so many awesome people from all over Europe and even some people from the states! I pray for all of you often!
13. ALEXIS GOT BAPTIZED!!! I can't think of a better going away gift than to see another get added to the Kingdom!
14. I moved back to Anderson.
15. MY SISTER GOT BAPTIZED!!! What a welcome home present!
16. I found a job and that's pretty much the rest of my 2012.
I didn't make any resolutions for 2012, but I am making resolutions for 2013. I want to be disciplined in keeping them. I tend to be a slacker in commitments to myself.
So, here goes. Some are spiritual; some are not so spiritual, but here are my resolutions for 2013:
1. To wake up before 8:00am every single day. It doesn't matter what day it is or what I did the night before. I want to be up before 8:00am.
2. Run the Cooper River Run 10k in under an hour.
3. Read through the entire Bible.
4. Be able to share about Jesus completely from the Old Testament. That's how the people were converted in the beginning anyway.
5. Go back to Europe for an entire month. That's right, AN ENTIRE MONTH. I want to strengthen current relationships and build new ones.
6. I don't know if I'm supposed to put this on here. I don't know how many guys actually read this, but I would like to, prayerfully, start dating in 2013. This one is complete faith in God and prayer in his will.
7. Study the Bible with more people and reach out to more people. I want to be a warrior for God in 2013.
I think that's all. A lot of them I just came up with on the spot, but I think it's a pretty solid list.
Anyway, 2012. It's been real, and it's been fun, but only parts of it were real fun.
Love,
Elizabeth
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