Greeting A New Year--Goodbye to the old year--

It doesn’t seem possible that 2007 has come and GONE! I had a lot of expectations this time last year. I still do, but with a little more reserve. Isn’t it strange how hindsight is 20-20?

If I needed to put a label on what my year was like for 2007, I would have to say it was a learning, healing year with several miracles combined. There was so much that I learned that helped me understand my own ability to heal and let go of the past.

The good thing about being a therapist is that there is a field of learning that takes me through my own healing as I learn how to help others heal. The good thing is that I can be my own “guinea pig” and apply what I learn to myself, yet we ALL benefit. I appreciate the opportunity I have to serve my family and help them almost daily with my talents and abilities. These have brought daily miracles regularly.

I know I was promised last year (2007) that I would see miracles, large and small in my family. Those miracles have been the hand of God in our lives. Hank and Lori’s K10, is an example of the great miracle of sight and her healing to restore the nerves that facilitated her vision. Tracie and Jared saw the miracle of life in Luke’s birth and good health and we welcomed Ethan Hunt McIntire, healthy as well .

My family is my greatest miracle.

I count having everyone here this summer for our reunion as one of my greatest joys and blessings. This spring I was able to go visit one of my cousins in San Antonio, and then visited another cousin north west of Austin that same trip. My year was uneventful for the most part, thankfully.

My week visit to Seattle in November over Thanksgiving was to see Matt and Beth which was a first for me to see them in their new home and new baby, Ethan Hunt McIntire.

So, three new grandchildren this year marked my 2007. I had many experiences of being a grandma and spending time with my grandchildren several times during this year too. I am grateful to have the health that I have to be able to do so on a smaller scale anyway. I look to be busier with my work and practice as a therapist. I have some goals to earn the living I am trained to do in my new office in Orem.

I look forward to 2008 with new things to learn/do, people and places to know and visit. I want to serve in the temple again soon as an ordinance worker and look forward to it. I spoke with my bishop at tithing settlement and he said to go back in for a visit with him about it. I have missed the spirit that serving in the temple has given me.

I pray God blesses us all to seek and find ways we see His hand in our lives everyday.