Welcome 2023!

 We saw the beginning of the new year in a quiet way.

I am sure that we were in bed before 9:30 on New Year's Eve.

Our neighborhood was quiet (which has not been the case in either NC or OR).

We enjoyed New Year's Day at church.

I realize that changes can happen at any time

and should happen as they are needed,

but I do think more about changes at the beginning of a new year.

As I look through different "Word of the Year" choices that I have made,

I could use any one of them again.

I feel that I can always work on Contentment, Diligence, Dependence, and Righteous Consistency.

But this year ... I am thinking of "BLOOM."

I want to bloom where I am planted.

I want to improve, learn and grow.

I don't want to be stagnant.

I have a few projects that I started (some even years ago) that I want to finish.

I want to find my place of ministry here - even if it is different than it has ever been.

I want to be a source of "life" and "beauty" to others in my words and actions.

Psalm 1:3

And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, 

that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; 

his leaf also shall not wither; 

and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.