A Reflective New Year's Eve

We spent New Year's Eve with our church family this year reflecting on 2009 with some great questions from our pastor for us to then share answers with everyone. I was very thankful for the time given to specifically do this as I probably would not have taken the time otherwise (or thought of such great questions to ask myself!) Questions like, "Did you focus more this past year on doing or being?", and "What do you know more about God today than one year ago? How did you learn it?", and also "Over the past year, who has influenced you the most? Do they know?"

We finished by studying Moses' prayer in Psalm 90 about how God views time. What a great reminder of the bigger picture. God always has been and always will be. He is eternal. We, on the other hand, are frail and sinful resulting in a short span of life. Verse 12 sums it up for me . . . "So teach us to number our days, that we may present to You a heart of wisdom." Always I am in need of reminding to plan my days wisely, and my next week, next month, next year. Ah, yes, a lot of reflecting going on here. :)

Anyway, we finished off the night with a relaxing time of table games (and snacks, of course!) It was a small group of friends, but we were all just enjoying the down time and fellowship as the clock wound down! Here's a few pics of the kids enjoying some games with their friends!