This Celtic Mandala represents life, noting how days and years turn from one to another. As we have stepped from 2008 into 2009 some of us look back with joy and others with saddness; probably most of us with a mixture of the two.
Sally says: As we look back we may come to understand how God has worked in and through us in joy and sadness. How we have grown against what may seem impossible odds. As we look forward we may do so with expectation, and we may do so with fear and trembling. As we look back and forward in New Year's liminality I offer you this simple yet I hope profound Friday Five in two parts:
First list five things that you remember/ treasure from 2008
* RevGals Big Event 1.0 on the high seas!
* Visiting Songbird in Maine
* The RG Virtual Advent Retreat
* Ken getting his new motorcycle, which he LOOOOOVES
* My first motorcycle rally in Galveston
Then list five things that you are looking forward to in 2009
* Settling down with a full work team, finally!
* Being in a new building, more centrally located on campus
* RG Big Event 2.0 in the desert!
* Hearing my sweet husband sing in British cathedrals this summer
* Maybe a meetup with British RevGals then!
As you read one anothers blogs today I challenge you to leave a word of encouragement and pause to pray for each member of Revgals as we step into a New Year. I leave you this New Year Blessing from the Iona Community:
We stand to face the future: