Lesson # 2015

2015 has felt like a year of "re"-learning.
Moving somewhere after being gone 7+ years means starting over. New doctors, new dentists, new friends, new home, new jobs, new vision, new focus. I've had to learn to give myself some patience because the transition just didn't happen over night. Thankfully it seems that I am reaching the other side. I am sure this is only to encounter new challenges, because life is full of learning until the end of our days.
A key piece for me during this past year has been discovering that amount of expectation I carried for myself, and even the perceived expectations of others. I've had to learn to lay them down as physically and emotionally it was impossible to fulfill all the expectations that were in my head. It is tough not to pick up more expectations as I go along and am establishing all of these new things...
I've learned that building new friendships in a new community takes a lot of energy and I have had to be okay with not having it happen very fast. In the last couple of months I have been thankful to have more energy to pour into relationship building.
I'm so glad that in the midst of this year the Lord promised to never leave me or forsake me, and going into 2016 is the same promise.
Have you taken time to reflect on what you learned in 2015? It's a tough question to answer because often we don't articulate what we have learned, it just gets tucked away in the recesses of our life and we pull it out and apply as needed when matters call for it.

Happy New Year!