A new year, a new theme, and no resolutions

Happy 2010!

I am alive and back in the rat race of the city. I flew back Saturday night after two weeks in the South and life has started again at full force! (hince the reason I have not updated the blog)

I am going to upload pictures from my trip(My camera happy self took about 400 pictures so I will definitely be sharing), but it is taken me forever to get them all on my computer.

I am thankful for a new year, but honestly I have had no desire to set new year resolutions. To be honest I know I will just break them so why make them. BUT I have started praying some very specific prayers for 2010. I know that God's timing is not my timing, but my heart has felt heavy about certain things and so I am fighting to release them to the Lord as I know he is the author of my story and the story of my friends and family.

As my fellowship group spent a long while sharing our hearts and praying for one another last night one of the girls emailed me a couple verses after hearing me talk about some things I am struggling with. The verse is one I have grown up hearing and reading repeatedly, but is so rich and feels really new to me right now.

Matthew 6:33

"But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things will be added to you."

I have decided I want this to be my theme verse this year. I want to unpack it, mediate on it, and live it out. I want my one goal this year to be to seek the Lord with my whole heart and then believe that everything else in my life will fall into place. I know that does not mean that life will always be smooth and easy, but I want Christ to be on the throne of my heart instead of the idols I continually put there. I hope to share more of what I am learning as I dig into that verse this year.

AND if I were going to make one resolution which I am really not, it would be to blog more. I really like this blogging thing. It all started because my mom wanted me to update people back home about my new adventure in the city, but for me it has become more of a scrapbook. A scrapbook of my experiences and life in the city and a scrapbook of my heart as I share at different points what I am thinking and what I am learning. I want to do that more. Every day I see so much and experience so many emotions as I try to do life with the millions on a tiny island with no space, high intensity, cultural vastness, and at incredibly fast pace. So I hope to share more. I hope to blog more. We'll see how it goes.

And lastly I really like the first song on my place list. It has ministered to me quite a bit lately.

Be back with pictures...