2014 has, by and large, been a very eventful and positive year for me. Everything from interviewing at Facebook in Hong Kong, the Epic North America trip, WWDC, the super whirlwind trip to Singapore for the wedding of the century and ending it with some great company, lots of drinks and some pretty hilarious board games. It is very unusual that I have an eventful year so there is going to be some pretty big shoes for 2015 to fill. Or any other year in fact. But I think the most important of all, is that it is the year that I felt God's presence in a way that I have never felt before. That you know without a shadow of a doubt that He is there. And that is supremely profound thing to experience.
It is also the year where lots of relationships have shifted. Equally as many people got married as there are people getting engaged, my sister including. Most people I know have never been happier with all the relationships that have moved around, whether personally or just the people around them. Everyone have something or someone to look forward to.
This is the year where I have decided to take that leap of faith in shaking up a lot of my relationships that I have (or what's left of them). Stepping down from playing music in a church that I have been in for the past decade has been a very difficult decision to make but have made it anyway. Which I think it is a good time for me to do that because I think it is about time that I try serving in other areas in my current church, one where I can now fully say that it is my home church. One where I will be spending more time trying to build the relationships that I have started there. Another aspect is that a friend that I have known for more than 5 years is moving interstate and she is the glue that binds a lot of us together. It is going to be a great challenge maintaining that relationship with the others now that she is no longer going to be around.
Now in the new year, more than ever, I will have a lot to deal with my relationships. I am terrible at maintaining them, not to mention that I am a terrible friend. But mostly, searching for a core group of friends is going to be difficult. It is said that you would have at most 5 really good friends in your lifetime, one that will know you inside out. I can confidently say that I have none for the longest time. Either that I am too lax with catching up with people or that people are not that interested in this square. Whatever the case, something has got to give.
So I welcome 2015 with open arms yet with caution that I will not become my own undoing.
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3 more years.
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