2009 - Endless Possibilities

Today is the day before 'Old Year's Day' as we call it here in the West Indies or the day before 'New Year's Eve' if you are American but whatever you want to call it, the year is at an end. Hmmm, it's the time of the year when we all do some soul searching, self-assessment and inventory of our year's endeavors so that we can set new goals and resolutions for the bright new year ahead. So let's look at my year.
2008, What a year this has been!!!! There have been trials, pains, disappointments, fears, points of weakness and feelings of failure, times when I have dared to dream and times when I lock my dreams in a box, times when I am certain I can move mountains and times when I ask "who am I kidding". As I said before, What a year it has been! Yet here I am at the end of it and hope is still alive in me. Yes this year was a year when I thought it would drown (hope that is) but coming to the end of one of the hardest years of my life, I look to 2009 with hope. Hope, because I am a child of God and therefore I have nothing to fear. Hope , because God has proven over and over that He will never fail me. Hope, because I know God's promises are true. Hope, because my God has given me wings and I will fly!
So yes I am a bit bruised and scarred after the fight I had this year but like Joshua I will bring down Jericho's wall and like Caleb I will take my mountain. So I wait as the final hours pass in 2008, I wait for the bells to toll the beginning of 2009 and I greet it believing it will be a year of endless possibilities, a year to climb a mountain, a year of receiving what I have been believing for. 2009 is MINE!!