It’s 2.33am and it’s a new year. Sarah is asleep, I can’t sleep, and, well, I guess I feel compelled to post. I mean, it seems that everyone is doing their “Year in Review” and sure, I could put up my top five posts, or something like many of my friends are doing, but…I’m not sure really what to write, but I thought it would be something to do other than staring at my ceiling in the dark.
We had a good New Years’ celebration this year…I recalled sometime during the evening that last year I spent the evening at home, watching The Terminal with my parents, blogging and coming up with some crazy New Years’ resolutions like trying to read the Bible through in a year…yah, that went well. Anyway, we spent the day watching movies (Rumor Has It and Brokeback Mountain) and having a nice dinner at the Macaroni Grill. We came back to campus and drank sparkling wine and caught the end of You’ve Got Mail and watched Hitched. A nice relaxing day after a whirlwind of a ‘vacation.’
Sarah said to me tonight, after midnight, “we’re getting married this year.” It’s amazing. So much has changed in the past year, and so quickly. I’m getting married. I’m moving to Atlanta. I’m going to study at a new school for a year. I’m going to be a husband. I’m going to have new priorities; new responsibilities. There is so much – and so much that I cannot even prepare for – so many things that will be unexpected – great things, hard things, sad things and joyful things. And before I know it, I will be writing a New Years post for 2007, reminiscing about my first few months being married…and life passes by so quickly.
It’s 3am now, and I’m starting to get sleepy. I don’t know that I’m ready for everything that is going to come my way this year, but I know that those things will come and I will be able to handle them. I know that God is preparing great things for Sarah and I – individually and together as a couple – and I’m excited to see where God leads us in the next year & beyond.
To a new year…and all that will come to pass…