I'm ashamed to admit it but feel I must, if only to help myself. So if you're not into reading about my downfall and confession, just skip on down to the next paragraph. See, every new year I post a Bible verse on this old blog. My intention is to have a scripture to reflect, guide, and INSPIRE me as I share about our little life here. Click
here to see the one I picked for last year. I'm not sure when I fell off the thankful wagon and hopped onto the self-pity train but I can assure you that the train crashed. Big time. In picking up the pieces of the wreckage, I feel the best way to put them back together is to go straight back to that verse and be thankful for the lesson learned from it. I'm heading into 2018, blessed and ready to remember it!
Just like last year, I purchased a planner to record projects, weather, purchases, and harvests for this year. Right now all the pages are blank except one. That's the one where we'e started a list of homestead blessings we're bringing in to this year. Soon we'll be adding goals and plans. But I'm going to reflect on this page for a while first. And here is the verse for 2018:
Philippians 3:13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before
