Here We Go Again!

Well, it's January 5th, and the start of a new year. I can't really believe that it's a new year - let alone the year 2010. But it is. And here I am, ready to start some things fresh. And one of those things is to maybe blog again. Not sure if I'm committing to it wholeheartedly, but I want to at least give it a try. For some reason I feel very "bloggy".

I think it would be good for me to chronicle some things about my boys lives that I will probably forget in the craziness of living life, and to journal about what God is doing in my life. And, I desperately want to have some things to share in that area... I'm wanting a fresh word from Him this year. I am longing for a deeper, closer walk with Him, and the passion that He gave me several years ago to be reignited. It's been a crazy year and a half... with much of my time and attention and focus being around having children...trying to get pregnant, or grieving the loss of a baby I'll never know this side of heaven, or trying to get pregnant again, giving birth, and presently enjoying the first months of my precious baby boy's life. So, as I put that pregnancy season behind me, I am praying for God to speak some new things into my life and to open doors of opportunity for me to be used by Him in the coming months. I'm still in somewhat of a "baby lock-down" mode since He's such a little guy, and the weather outside is frightful (and the fire is non-existent), but I know I don't have to leave this house for God to do a new work within me, so that is what I'm asking Him for.

So, I'm going to try to blog again - not sure when in the world I'll find time to do it between nursing the baby, the 50 loads of laundry I seem to be doing each week, and the other things on my plate, but hopefully I'll start putting my thoughts, God's work, and my reflections on motherhood down on this computer and see what happens. Even if nobody reads it, it will be for me.

My prayer verse for 2010:

Isaiah 43:19

See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland.

God, I ask you to do a new thing in me this year. Take the desert places and make a way for You to shine through and be glorified... take the wasteland and let is flow with Your living water. Thank you for what You will do. I love you!

Happy New Year!