New Years Day -2017

A recap of last year-

I drove away from the one I loved, in January last year and suffered with the adjustment of living without him for a few months. I worked to save money from January-May so that I could go to Europe the first week of June after my sister and then my best friends' weddings. I saved somewhere around 5000 in four months, which I thought was really good. Until I came home from Europe and made 5000 in a month. haaa.
My sister's wedding marked the end and the start of something new. To this day, I try to like her husband- but he is a stranger, and he is my sister's new best friend instead of me. But the wedding day itself was so much fun, with friends and family and new friends in the making.
Seeing my friends in Colorado was wonderful, both the gang in Cripple Creek and then for Eve's wedding on the other side of the state. So much laughter.
That first week of June I left north America for the first time, and ventured off to see the world. What an experience that was. I saw things, and met people. And realized that life isn't that much different over there. The grass is not greener on the other side.
My relationship with God deepened as I had to trust Him with my life- having no idea what I was doing, who to meet, what to learn. I was able to share my struggles and successes with the one I loved drawing us closer once again.
I came home to America, utterly at a loss. Goal was achieved. Now what do I do with my life? I felt the call to Louisiana, but didn't know why, and had to make excuses for why to go when it didn't make sense to my brain.
In leaving home for an unknown place in the beginning of September, having one last final time with the one I loved, before a few short weeks he shut me out of his life forever- the hardest transition I have ever made.
Working for nothing, but the calm and peace that living here has brought me. The absolute certainty of walking by faith and learning to love like Jesus even in the pits of despair, I feel like the change has been astronomical. That in this past year I have grown and changed into a being closer to the one I want to be.
In this new year, I see even more change happening. I don't know what this year will bring, but I will love, I will hope, and I will enjoy the processes of life.