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The Lord says,

I will guide you along the best pathway for your life.

I will advise you,

   & watch over you.

Psalm 32:8



That was the verse I felt like God gave me for 2013 - a verse to hold on to throughout the year.

On the face of it, it would be easy to think that 2013 will be a year of clear sailing.

If you follow my life, you know 2013 was a crazy year - & that's putting it mildly.

Some might say it was an awful year.


Early in the year, we had to face down a medical situation & deal with it.

In a panic, we sold the farmhouse & moved back to Macon.

When we got to Macon,we realized God wanted us to still be in Blairsville.

We bought a house & moved back.

    Yes, we moved twice in 6 months. I do not recommend this. ;-)


You have no idea how draining those 4 things were.


But...

    there were some good things.


Lynn got to go back to Kenya for 2+ weeks in January.

The farmhouse did sell in just a few weeks - yes, a few weeks.

We sold the condo in Athens that Hannah lived in while she was at UGA.

We sold the fishing house at Dover's Bluff in Camden County, GA.

We were definitely led to buy a house on Owltown Rd with good neighbors around us and what some call a million dollar view.

We paid off the house n Macon.

We're attending a church, although not perfect, that has worship that is in a 21st century paradigm - rare up here. We're crazy about the worship leader & his fiance.

We found out that we had / have a lot more influence in Blairsville than we imagined.

We reconnected with a friend from LONG ago who is now an active part of our lives again.

We're developing relationships in surprising places with people we wouldn't think we'd be connected to.

We stepped back into our volunteer work at the food pantry & have been busier than a one-armed paper hanger.

I'm trying to disciple an extremely funny guy as he steps away from a life of drugs.

And the medical situation we faced down does not seem to be progressing.



Ya know, up until now, I always have thought of 2013 as pretty awful.

Even though there were some extremely difficult aspects to it, maybe it wasn't so bad after all?


The Lord says,

I will guide you along the best pathway for your life.

I will advise you,

    & watch over you. Psalm 32:8