Is it too late to reflect on '08?  While I think about engaging in the month of January, I have to confess that last year was a challenge for me.  We were new here and I was not detaching well from our old home.  For all of you that are a part of the chapter of "Our Old Home", I laid in bed the other night and a familiar heart-sinking feeling crept over me again.  I miss you so badly.  I didn't mind the sadness this time, though, because there co-exists in me the rock-solid place in my heart that will always belong to you, and the happiness with being here now.  That peace makes such a difference!  I recognize how blessed we are.  We are all healthy.  Oh, how we either take that for granted or worry away our wholeness dreading the day we'll get sick.  We have friends last year that were on the frontlines of the battle of their body's betrayal.  Two young mothers -- one who lost her battle and another who won -- and one little guy who is still fighting his.  It's humbling, but He does give life and He does take away.  The reconciling of that makes the creation of life that much sweeter.  I am still in awe over the miraculous birth of my niece.  She shouldn't exist, yet every time I see her she has a big, wide smile for me!  What a gift.Greg has a job.  I do not say that to be a rub to someone who doesn't but, again, before the rattling our economy got, I think I took that for granted.  We walked through that valley several years ago and watched God's Providence go over and above what we needed, amazingly.  I am reminded that there is nothing we have that we did not receive from Him.  We look to ourselves and government to solve our problems but it's a frustrated effort.  What peace to know that the One who effortlessly spins the Universe is perfectly capable of sustaining our home!I am thankful for the light of Christ that shines in my son.  Isn't that a mother's ultimate goal?  My heart is so full when I hear Greg and Joshua praying together in the morning and talking about what they just read from the Bible.  A kid can see hypocrisy a mile away but I think he knows this is real for us.  God's Spirit lives and loves in this house as well as (and better) than any of us do.I don't know what's ahead, I have no resolutions, but I pray for eyes and ears to open a little wider.  I don't want to miss anything good...