New Year Beginning

This new year is a special one for us. 

We are beginning it with a third member for our first time.  

Last year on New Year's Eve, the hubs and I debated whether I should take a pregnancy test.  He won the debate and we have been overjoyed, blessed and sometimes scared everyday since then.  It has been a roller coaster ride (please see previous posts), but one I would do again!

For Christmas, we bought Sweet P a little devotional that is a child's adaptation of "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers.  The child's version is called "Jesus Wants All Of Me" and goes day by day with the same scripture and similar lesson as the adult's version.  This morning, Sweet P and I sat down and started our devotionals for this year with a nice cup of tea! (I gave up coffee when I gave up cream - I put Almond Milk in my tea and it is yummy)

With the Hubs home to watch Sweet P, I was able to start a new knitting project today.

We also enjoyed one of our new traditions.  Let's see if you can guess

It involves these ingredients and a hot fire

Yup - You guessed it!  S'mores!!!  We roast the marshmallows in our fireplace and enjoy some in-house s'mores :)

It appeared as though our Lil Sweet P wanted some too.  

We do have some exciting things coming up this year, but we are not sharing *yet* (NO, we are not having another baby).   

We haven't made any new years resolutions.... We had so much on our plate in 2012 that we had to accomplish, I think we both need to just take every day as it comes.  And learning to be parents is a pretty big task in it's own.

What about you?  Any New Years Day fun? Do you have any resolutions?

Stewardship

2011 is on it's way out!    God taught me a lot, challenged me a lot, restored much and set a thought on my heart that He is working in me.

Be a good Steward of that which you have been given

God loves to delight in His children.  He gives us much.  His gifts are innumerable, and with those gifts, (whether physical, spiritual, emotional, etc) He asks us to be a good steward of them.  

"As each one has received a gift, minister it to one another, 

as good stewards of the manifold grace of God."

~ 1 Peter 4:10 

"And the Lord said, "Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whose master will make ruler over his household, to give them their portion of food in due season?"

~ Luke 12:42

All that we have, He has given.  All He has given, He entrusts to us to manage it well.  And since we belong to Him, all that I have, that He gave me, belongs to Him.   What belongs to Him, He will ask an account of.

"So He called him and said to him, 'What is this I hear about you?  

Give an account of your stewardship....'"

~ Luke 16:2a

Reading this verse, I must ask myself:

"Secora, what are doing with that which God has given you?!  

What are you going to do about that?"

So 2012, I will be meditating on Stewardship. I will meditate and pray on how I(we) can be, or rather how God would like me(us) to be, a good steward of what He has given me(us).  I pray that God will chisel me and build in me His will for what He has given us.

Reflecting on some gifts I have received:

~ The Mister - my Hubby

~ Our friends and family (and our 'church' family)

~ My Lil' Miss Marianne

~ Our country and the freedom to openly worship Jesus

~ Our home

~ Our Health
~ Our ministries 

     : the Hubs, I believe, is High School Football officiating

     : William's Gift
~ Our vehicles and jobs

~ Our bible studies

~ and sooo much more


Do you have any goals for 2012?  I would love to hear some!