Yes, good riddance 2012.
The year when the devil sought to take me out by incessantly blighting me with sickness, untold pain and multiple adversity.
It was as if i was eternally shackled in a dark maze, unable to tell which way out.
It was a year when my worst side was unraveled to me, things i had hitherto ignored.
It was a year of many unfulfilled dreams.
It was a year of disruptive and disenfranchising relationships.
It wasn’t a good year, right from January to the end.
The most appropriate name for 2012 is ANNUS HORRIBILIS.
But that is just a half of the story. The other half is that God came through for me.
He turned my mourning into dancing, my sorrow into joy and my disadvantages into invaluable lessons and opportunities. He went further and restored my losses in divinely amazing ways. He confounded my opponents. He silenced my critics. He answered my cynical enemies. He stayed the plans of my saboteurs. He snugged me with His everlasting, never-failing grace and love. He protected me from making some very foolish and self-destructive choices. He declined to answer some of my prayers which if He did, would have destroyed me.
That is the other half of 2012. That is my ANNUS MIRABILIS.
As i bid the bitter half of 2012 goodbye, i can’t embrace enough the other awesome, rewarding and redemptive half of the same year. I only hope that 2013 will pick the cue and bring my way better days that will make me, by God’s grace, to move from GOOD to GREAT.
ADIOS 2012. BIENVENIDO 2013.
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