Good-bye twenty, Hello twenty one

Well, I guess I'm gonna be another year older tommorrow. Birthdays have sometimes been interesting for me. On my seventeenth birthday my parents forgot, and on my nineteenth I almost forgot, so I guess we're even. It's funny to think that I'll be twentyone tommorrow. I remember a few years ago how I was think about getting married to a certain someone at about this age. I'm glad God had other plans, cause I would've have been too blinded to enjoy these past years, being at camp and learning how to live life on my own with God has been quite the adventure. I can truely say, "God is good!"
For some odd reason, Septmeber has always been like New Years for me. It's when i tend to look back on the past year and look to the next year. This past year was a year filled with changes and learning. Living on my own, well sorta on my own, I've learnt alot. I've gained alot of respect for my dad and how he managed his money to support my brother, my mom and I. I learnt how to cook for myself and how to care for a car, well maybe I'm still learning that too, but I've learnt a lot about managing money. A couple of years ago I started choosing a passage for the bible that spoke to me and using it as my theme for the year. This past year my passage was John15:1-17, the vine passage. the part that stuck out to me the most was where it said "remain in me and I will remain in you." So all I gotta do is stay with God and he'll stay with me, simple enough, right? Well, try telling that to someone when their first paycheck is missing or their car breaks down for the third time. Tell trying that to someone when during their first two weeks of work they are told they might not be good enough for the job. Looking back I can see how God has used that passage to teach me manny things. Although this year wasn't easy it was good an di'm looking forward to this next year and what God has to teach me through my next theme passage of the year. (You'll find that one out tomorrow)
Audrey