I’m in a reflective mood today, but my heart is filled with thankfulness today as I reach a milestone in my life.
I wrote about my upcoming birthday in January and set several goals for myself. I’m working toward those goals each day, though progress is not as rapid as I’d like…the story of life. More importantly than the physical fitness regimen, I work daily to order my priorities in a way that recognizes I am no longer a child: that I have a wife, kids, and a profession to carefully steward. My prayers echo the words of Moses in Psalm 90:12, “Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.”
I’m thankful for the many opportunties I’ve experienced over the last decade, the many nations I have visited, the personal growth I’ve experienced in my profession and relationships (sometimes in the most painful of ways), and for a Christian faith that has grown more resilient as it has been tried and tested. I’m thankful for the people that have been placed into my life and while I woke up this morning singing, “When morning gilds the sky, my heart awaking cry: May Jesus Christ be praised!” (originally a German hymn called Beim frühen Morgenlicht), a line from the hymn Amazing Grace now comes to mind:
A great solo travel tip spotted this week on Live and Let's Fly.
