Saturday, January 9, 2016

Looking Forward to 2016

With 2015 gone like a puff of smoke, I thought I would follow up my 2015 review with what I have to look forward to in 2016.

I am graduating from high school. I feel like I am typing someone else's story when I type that, not my own! It makes me do a double take. Where did the time go?!?

I am working at a Christian camp out of state for 10 weeks this summer. I will be one of the youngest members on staff and it will be the first time that I am more than an hour away from home for more than a week at a time.

I am applying for college and learning to drive. When did I become an adult? Can't I just go back to pillow forts and eating goldfish?
 
I am aging out of youth group. I can remember being a scared 6th grader who threw up in the bathroom after her first visit, now I have the ability to lead. That potential holds so much more value that mere words can tell.

This is just what I know lies ahead. There will be many, many more things that stretch me and push me this year. It is exciting and utterly terrifying. Even typing out what I tentatively know terrifies me because these are big things!

In all the adventures that this year holds, I pray that I keep Christ as the center of what I do and wherever I go. To walk without God takes more courage than walking with Him does. We serve a good, faithful, and loving God ya'll! This is why I will walk forward with boldness.