While we were out for dinner yesterday I brought a fun little exercise for us all to do while we were waiting for our food. It was a "Personal Bio & Favorites" sheet with about 25 different items to identify (I got the idea on a Southern Gospel family's website). We had a lot of fun listening to each other's favorite things. The one that stood out to me was Mel's song of choice, "Great Is Thy Faithfulness". This was not new to me, but it was a good reminder. This time of year is very special to me. We have a number of family birthday's, Christmas, New Year's, and our wedding anniversary. We just celebrated 18 years of life together as husband and wife. I am q very nostalgiac person and I take time each year to look back and try to remember the highlights of the past year - it's actually a great exercise to be intentional with. In an email I received between Christmas & New Year's, I was encouraged to take some time to reflect on this past year and actually write down significant happenings from 2009. WOW! It struck me that I want to actually record this from now on and p[ass it forward to my children for their children to be a reminder of how active and faithful God is in our lives. It's easy to glibly sing an old, familiar tune, but the reality of those timeless words are ringing true in my spirit once again as we launch into 2010.
"Great is Thy faithfulness, O God, my Father.
There is no shadow of turning with Thee
Thou changest not Thy compassions, they fail not
As Thou hast been Thou forever wilt be.
Great is Thy faithfulness!"
(William Runyan - 1870)
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