It's been quite a year. I went back and tried to find the most important blog postings for the year and realized why my therapist has been so concerned about me. I've gotten a bit annoyed at her over protection of me, concern and feeling like she fusses over me. Looking at it as a whole unit ...it is a bit ... intense.
My best friends baby died, my mother broke 6 bones, my husband almost died ..and spent 45 days in the hospital, another friends six year old died, a blog friends husband died on Christmas eve, my pastor of 10 years resigned and my church went 10 months without a pastor, I left a ministry I'd been with for 8 years ...and left worship ministry all together (after being in worship ministries since the age of 13!) and started working with children's ministry. I had a book published, a brand new house my oldest son turned 18 and my youngest child turned 16. I've been in the media, which I was ill prepared for and I've come to terms with my own daughters death 19 years ago, when my friends baby died. My eating disorder relapsed (gee, wonder why) and my depression tanked. My health went up and down like a roller coaster and I have spent 51 days at a hospital bedside. *I* managed to stay out of the hospital and off the surgeon's table for the first year since I have been a mother!!! YEAH WHOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I've come up with some of what I consider to be the best postings of the previous year. If they are not linked into the previous paragraphs, they are below.
Thank you for the few faithful readers that have stayed with me. (my readership dropped from 65 to about 25 this year! EEKS! )
Dr. Suess
"And will you succeed? Yes indeed! Yes indeed! Ninety Eight and Three Quarters guarenteed!"
Wow, what a year you've had . . . You are a strong woman, Pk--you amaze me.
ReplyDelete(my readership went from fluctuating between 50 and 100, depending on the topic, to somewhere around 10--must be the picture of me! lol)
Praying a dose of peace over you and yours...
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xo
Whew.....what a year you've had! Look in confidence to the next year that it will be better. That's what I am trying to do. For me too it has been a year of a lot of ups and downs but mostly a lot of downs and I hope and pray that next year by the grace of God will have more ups! I do have to give credit to where it's due...God has pulled me through a lot of those downs this year! Without him who knows what I would have done! God Bless you!!! Happy New Year!!
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year, PK. Here is to a better 2008!
ReplyDeleteI think I am your first commenter of 2008.
Just wanted to let you know that you and the family are still in my prayers.
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