2017 – A Time to Reflect

Hi Steem-ians!

I am pretty sure that as the day approaches to the end of its 2017 journey, many would be busy getting things ready for partying and some just a quiet evening.

For me, today I have an exceptional quiet day for myself.

I started the morning day be stepping into the place I can give thanks, and I will choose to end the day back to the same place giving thanks of this year in 2017.

While looking at my 2017 album, I have come to noticed that I have been blessed with many seasons of life this year.

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In this one whole year I have enjoyed good company of friends, and the very same group of friends I have experienced misunderstandings.

I have also enjoyed planning things ahead with anticipation, and the very same time I experienced disappointments.

I have come to a certain plateau state of mind, unable to break through mind blocks and being frustration of it; but at the same time I found breakthroughs that expands my creativity once again.

I have lost some valuable friends along the way, yet in the same time I have gained new meetings of new friends with similar vision forward as well.

Along with meeting up with old friends that I never thought I would see them again in my lifetime.

I have learned to respect the sweat and pain of others when I am in their shoes.

And I have seen miracles that I never thought possible that happened through me.

I have also learned that when I speak, I must speak with care as you may never know when it will hit back towards me since human beings are never perfect and the spirit of murmuring will always be bondage in their hearts and minds.

The whole 2017 journey has made me understand that life will always have its ups and downs, and though every word and every move we make we must do so with most sincerity, we must also learn not to take everything too much to heart and with less expectation; treat others just as we want others to treat us (Jesus’ golden rule) yet at the same time don’t expect them to do the same in our own finite expectations.

The every hardship that I have gone through, I know God has a bigger plan for me. Today as I was just sharing with a brother in Christ how things start to fall into place for his life and mine through all the challenges and trials of life we encounter in our own way with God, I realized that to take that “little step of faith” is harder to step out when life is good, because we do not want to rock the boat; but when life is at its edge of a rocky cliff and ranging waves, we are pushed to our limits, that is where we soar to our heights when we step it out in faith.

And through it all, the only unchanging scenery is like the horizon, the One who is the same yesterday, today and forever more will always have my back. (Hebrews 13:8)

I just need to trust Him. And keep moving forward to a new dawn in 2018.

Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have laid hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 3:13 – 14)

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