2024: My Deep Gratitudes
As we enter the final hours of 2024, I've been reflecting on all it contained. In that spirit, I wanted to just share a few of the things I am grateful for from the year past as I look to the one ahead. God's unwavering presence and love. This was a year where I have had to do a lot of heart-work (a work that is far from over.) I've been recognizing deep problems with how I feel toward and move through the world. My emotions and anxieties have often been at the fore. It has not been my most comfortable year with God. There are deep ways I struggle to trust him, and hard conversations we've had. What I am so grateful for is recognizing that despite those struggles, He has brought me to a place where I can fall apart and wrestle with Him from within His embrace. I don't feel like I have to question his presence anymore, or keep up appearances, or pretend like everything is okay. I have been able to cry out with a groaning, wounded heart while knowing He is infinitely...
