2011 is a wrap!

So is haven't blogged in quite a while. I decided it was about time to especially in light of a new year with new beginnings. I feel so refreshed at the beginning of a new year and I love reflecting on the year that is now behind me.
Last year entailed still living in Nashville and building on friendships, continuing in my running, weddings, work, first semester of grad school completed, Michael graduating college w an engineering degree and finding a job, vacationing in Florida and parasailing, Taylor swift concert, and more. I was looking at old pictures the other day thinking about how quickly my life is flying by! And it makes me consider and ask...how and to what capacity am i being kingdom-minded. How am I sharing my faith. How am I deepening my faith. Am I prioritizing Christ as the focus and drive of my life? So I look to this coming year with hope in being able to start with new beginnings and a fresh look at my faith and what it means to me and how I can share that with people around me...we ask God for opportunities for us to use us if he so chooses..and I have been thinking about this a lot at my job because it feels so monotonous yet I know God has me there for a reason and I have such an urge to share my testimony and my faith. Well today in my chair I had a Buddhist 16 year old and was asking him about why and what he believed. It was so interesting and i felt like it was a little window into sharing my own faith. It was really neat. God is such a good and loving God and gives us the words to say. So this year I am also hopeful for a big year of travels. I really want to go to Korea. 2 of my best of friends are going to Seoul south Korea for a year to teach English at a school. One of my other friends wants to visit them...and is serious about making this trip. What I am thinking is that if we go I would love to find my file through the adoption agency my parents went through and maybe be able to see where I lived for 3 months- the foster home I lived in. I have some other resolutions but those are my major ones. Share Christ and study the Word and walk closely with him...and travel to Korea to see my friends and my foster home.