Life.. moves Fast..This year whipped in, made several turns, a sharp left, a quick right, a u-ie a few loopty, loops and here we are at the close…and now I am reflecting on getting another year older { Iam32 years young;) }and I couldn’t possibly write down everything that happened. I think what’s worst is there are moments in this year’s journey that I may have missed…because I was so busy..running through life… there are moments where there should have been a………Pause. Every year God shows up bigger in my life..or rather my faith increases allowing Him to show up greater {be it unto me according to my faith}. However, often times those moments come and I look back and I say wowww..God you showed up..and I reveled in the asking God to show up, but I rushed through the moment of serious Thanksgiving and just marveling at what God has done.. Marveling at how this year was better than the previous, that I witnessed MIRACLES not far away..but UPCLOSE&PERSONAL. I am full of thanksgiving for what God has done don’t get me wrong..but it’s easy to say thank you, and haphazardly not realize that the thank you is routine…someone gives us something… or does something for us… we say “thank you”, but do we say “thank you” ..from the heart.  Several years ago I started saying.. “Thank you ever so much..or Thank you soo much,” Alot of people think its a “quirky” thing that I do, but several years ago..I decided I wanted people to know that I am thankful for what they do for me..and I want to be cautious of when I say it..I mean it. So Thank you ever so much..is not a phrase you can rush..it’s boderline a tongue twister..but it slows you down..and you think about the words..”Thank you ever so much for that water you brought me.” “Thank you ever so much” for holding the door for me..{looking that person in the eye”} So with people I have gotten that down pact for the most part. However, when reflecting through this years journeys how many Thank you God’s did I miss? How many “Thank yous” did I rush through??!?!

I am girl who is blessed more than I can imagine.. not because I have everything, or I am this or that..but because I can go to the Father…and He is there with everything I need. I want to give a great amount of care to the “thank yous” I give the Father that I do the people He created..even more so! It’s easy to get busy doing and not really busy living.. I have done that for years! 2012 is going to be different.. I plan to stop and smell the roses, take in the atmosphere  as the wind breezes by me, as the sun lands on my skin.. I plan to saturate myself in the moment of this adventure I am on. I don’t want the adventure to come and go and me miss the miracles, the loveliness of God changing areas of my life, the bumps and valleys that serve as lessons for the future and the ultimate view from the mountain top when all is said and won…{yep won}. :)

In this upcoming year, 2012: I, Gigi, vow to make a conscious effort to take in the Journey and to make a conscious effort to thank God for every part of the journey…

Here’s to an amazing adventure in 2012 !

♥

Gigi

Praise the Lord! Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good! For His mercy endures for ever.- Psalms 106

Delight thyself also in the Lord, and He shall give thee  the desires of  your heart.” Psalms 37:4