Let's Start 2012

Well, first off I'd like to say happy new year. Looks like the world didn't end.:) However, I will say this, when it struck midnight and I went to send a text and it didn't work I looked at my friend and said "Well we survived but my phones dead so maybe it really is the end of the world!" Now I'm not really that superficial but I'll certainly joke about it.

2012 - what say you? We are now in your territory, your year.

As 2012 approached, I really didn't think much of it. I was ready to welcome the new and get rid of the old, but aside from that I really haven't had any preconceived ideas. Now that I'm in this year though, I think that a lot of this year is about endings. I don't think that the Mayan calendar ending at this point had anything to do with the end of the world. I think it's incredible and says something about the people that they made it that far! I know I sure wouldn't. Are you kidding? No thanks. I'll pass on making a calendar that far out. My dad can hardly get me to make one for the next year.

Anyway, back to my point. The year of endings. I think that we (humanity) looks at endings from the wrong point of view. We look at what we are losing and not what we can gain from it. It's like asking if the glass is half full or half empty. The great thing about a half empty cup is you are now that much closer to being able to fill it with whatever you want. I don't know, maybe I'm just getting to a place where I can finally put a positive spin on almost anything but let me tell you, the world is so much more beautiful from this standpoint.

I made the statement to someone a few days ago: "I've been on both sides of the coin." And that statement is so true in my life. It seems as though every experience I've had, I've walked both sides. I've done the religious church thing and I've done the rebellious teenage thing. I've done the rugby thing and the professional thing. I've gone from one polar opposite to the next. I look back on, well what there is to look back on, and could I have been wiser? Absolutely. But everything has worked out for me - and really well. I still have my struggles but what 19 year old doesn't? And what do struggles matter when you walk in the favor of Yahweh?

We so look at the wrong thing in life. For one, we are looking at things and not people. We live in a place of assumption all the time. I told my dad recently, one of the greatest dangers in life is to think you know. That statement keeps coming up in me. I don't want to think I know. Either I know or I don't. It's really that black and white - that simple. Why over complicate?

In 2012 (I don't think; I know this) there will continue to be a lot of endings for me. With just as many endings as there will be in this next year, there will be that many beginnings. I embrace both because I understand that you cannot have one without the other.