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Lessons from 2024

I'm posting again after a 3 year hiatus (wow, that's pretty long) with encouragement from my cousin. Thanks Dan for your encouragement to blog again!

I thought my first post back could be about my reflections from the past year that's just been. It was such a tough year as I had quite a serious injury and took awhile to recover and am still recovering, though I am so much better. 

Sometimes you just want to forget things like that ever happened, sometimes you want to just forget that reality is hard and life is hard and our bodies will accumulate more and more problems in this broken world.

Yet, I think it is wise and important for me to pause and reflect. So here are my learnings from 2024.

  1. During a year that was hard for me give to the people I love, I learned that they would continue to be there for me through the seasons, giving me a deeper experience of unconditional love. It was overwhelmingly beautiful and I felt and feel so loved.




  2. Life's too short to paint your nails just one colour so don't be afraid to take risks and have fun while you're at it!

  3. Accepting my limitations has been incredibly humbling, but it has also helped me to learn to uncover what my needs are. Flowing on from that, communicating my needs and limits to others has also been incredibly humbling, but it has also helped me be more genuine with myself and others, even though it's not been an easy feat for me.

  4. There is so much wisdom in just taking each day as it comes, especially when the future is uncertain. And it is in uncertainty that I learn to trust God more deeply, despite how much I hate uncertainty.

    I learned that uncertainty awakens me to the reality that I am not in control and my limitations as a human being, while prayer draws me close to the One who is in control. 



  5. Taking this quote from my physiotherapist: "Recovering from an injury can feel like a toblerone". You take one step forward and then three steps back and it can feel so frustrating, hopeful and hopeless at the same time. However, if you keep putting one foot in front of another, one day you'll look back and see you've climbed a mountain.


  6. When life isn't going your way, rather than focusing on what isn't going right or what you can't do, notice also what is going alright and what you can do. This was such a paradigm shift for me.




  7. And finally, I learned that from the hardest rains, God can bring about the most beautiful rainbows.

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