What blog would be complete without the obligatory New Years post? I didn't intend on writing one, but I am back from New Year's Eve festivities and find myself at 2:30am just sitting here before bed pondering on the things of 2006. Earlier tonight, I was compelled to think of the ways that I had been disappointed in 2006, or the ways in which things hadn't gone as planned. Though I was reminded of God's unfailing goodness to me this past year, and his steadfast promise that 2007 will be filled with His grace.

Looking back on old posts, there really isn't anything I am able to complain about. God blessed me through teaching a class for the first time, leading a bible study for the first time, building a car for a friend for the first time, and going to Europe for the first time. Through all of it, I was able to continue building friendships, as well as rekindle old ones. Oh yeah, and I also got a Masters degree somewhere in the midst of all of that.

On top of that, God continues to transform me to be more like Christ:

"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation." - 2 Cor 5:17-19

Off to bed... more thoughts later.