It wouldn´t feel at all like it´s New Year if I do not start it out doing what I love most to do. So, after watching the fireworks, I took to my typewriter to whisper some words.

The past year has been a very blessed one. If I make a list of all my blessings, I would run out of space in this blog entry. Nonetheless, I would name a few. I travelled to cities I have never been to before (Rome, Italy; Interlaken and Bern, Switzerland; Colmar, France; Marburg, Munich, Potsdam, Hohelinden, Neuendettelsau, Germany). I graduated from the bible school. I attended our annual Fall Retreat in Garmisch and have been truly refreshed. I made new friends and acquaintances. I visited the 16 churches in the center of the city where I live. I made it past a curative operation. I rode a roller coaster. I started this blog.

Yes, 2016 has not been free of trials and challenges. So were all the other years in my life. However, despite the difficulties, I am still thankful because God has never left my side.

Fireworks in my Heart

 

Resigned to watching

The colors go up

Then fade

Through my misty windowpane

Resounding sounds

Threshing for a moment

Touching the sky

Trouncing away

 

Rehearsing in retrospect

Time gone by

Thrills, thistles, thorns

Trickle through my thoughts

 

Reaching beyond

That which was lost

Though the former has gone

Thanksgiving flares up

 

Reminding me

That life is beautiful

That the New Year has come

To show the unexplored

 

Rowing again

Taking the trail

To taste, to see

The endless possibilities

 

Relinquished to embrace

Thoughts of new horizons

Too much at once

Tapping, then holding reality