Top Ten Posts in 2012

A very Happy New Year to you all!

Dear Readers/Friends,

It has been an honour and privilege to share my heart and life with you in 2012. 

Here are the Top Ten posts that have been most popular, so you can enjoy them again or maybe read for the first time if you are new here:

1 )The Age of Conversation

2) How does your garden grow?

3) Run out of steam?

4) Because you're worth it

5) Taking a leap of faith

6) Broken hearts...broken lives

7) Out of my depth

8) Grace Notes:An Introduction

9) Becoming

10) Moving on

The title of the last post listed here reminds us of the sands of time that are forever moving inexorably on. We cannot fight it. But we can embrace the new in order to make way for progress, change, renewal and restoration in the year ahead. 

I look forward to sharing with and hearing from you in this new year as we move upward and onward to discover all the potential in front of us yet to be enjoyed by God's grace.

As a bonus, until my next post, I include my latest poem for you:

Anew

Celebrated arrival cloaked

in virginal innocence.

A blank sheet

clean slate

rose-kissed dawn

pregnant with possibility.

Viewed with eyes

of wonder

intrigue

suspicion

awe 
breath-held fear

and great curiosity.

What if?

What if THIS -

is the time

promises are kept

dreams come true

lessons are learnt

goals are met?

Will problems rule

and reign again?

Will love flourish

or die?

Will we rush 

with open-armed embrace

or turn aside?

No easy answers

rise to our lips.

This takes

steely determination

raw courage

blind optimism

great faith.

As we plunge

into The Unknown -

unfamiliar territory

anchored by memory

of past victories

of battles won;

we too

 will overcome.

©JoyLenton2012

Coming up on the blog soon:

• Thinking about how life is for those who struggle in various ways
• Looking at embracing my God-sized dream
• Further Grace Notes reflections

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