2017 Wrap Up
I’m on the home stretch of my gratitude and encouragement challenge, and I’ve seen some of the retrospective and year-in-review pieces other authors are doing.
I wish I could. This year has been tumultuous, and yet somehow by God’s grace we’ve wrestled through. So much has happened it would take too many volumes to document it properly.
As a writer, I’ve learned triolet and pantoum. I’ve also learned to hate Affordable Care and at will employment.
As a mother, I’ve been struggling with my job of parenthood having to last longer than 18 or 21 years and adapting to neurodiversity. Yet, I’ve found great joy in the challenge and how the girls are all becoming so unique.
As a wife, I’ve been struggling to adapt to life with a concentrator at night, frequent middle of the night breathing treatments, and learning to sleep on a split king adjustable bed (the crack in no man’s land is not my friend, but that’s a blog post for another day).
As a woman, well… I just amaze me. I’m up, showered, and changed daily. What more could I ask for in such a tumultuous year? *looks away from laptop muttering, coffee by 9 would be good, yes, coffee by 9*
All the chaos has been good. It’s opened a new window, and there’s a new blog coming. It will be in addition to this one, and yes, my friends, it will be even more controversial… at least for my neck of the woods. It’s called Cross Words at the Crossroads: From Mecca and Medina to Jerusalem by Way of Berea (breathe deeply if you tried that all in one breath).
I invite you to check it out; it’ll be barren until the new year while I actually open my copy of the Qur’an and figure out how it’s organized. Then I have to get some initial posts started and lay out the standard post format. (And no, I’m not converting; I am just doing a serious study of the similarities and differences between Christianity and Islam using the attitude of the Christians in Berea as detailed in Acts 17:10–12.)
I still haven’t figure out how to manage the posting schedule. I want to definitely keep this blog going. However, if I only do one verse a day on the other, 15 years from now I still won’t be done with the Qur’an. (Might help if I actually opened that Qur’an my friend’s community gave me for speaking one morning… knowing its organization just might be helpful to me as a writer.)
Merry Christmas!
Happy Hanukkah!
Joyous Kwanzaa!
Festive Festivus!
Merry whatever other holiday you celebrate that I haven’t acknowledged!
