Happy New Year to the women of the blogosphere!! I trust each of you had either a fun and exciting New Year's Eve; a quiet and relaxing New Year's Eve; or, like we had, a sleeping-through-the-entire-thing-then-waking-up-on-the-couch-at-two a.m. New Year's Eve!!! I would be interested to hear how you spent our Lord's Day this New Year. Our fellowship did a particularly meaningful thing: we spent the entire service in corporate worship and prayer for the upcoming year. What does the Lord have in store for Crossway Fellowship in 2006? Well, we already know we are moving to a new facility in Athens at the end of January. Our prayer is that we would be able to reach out to more UGA students in the area, as well as other people in the Athens community. We will no longer be a little sheltered, middle-class, suburban fellowship- and thank God for that!!! He has answered the prayers of many in our church leadership regarding a new facility.

So I am curious to know if any of you have personal and/or spiritual goals for 2006? Let me hear from you. As for me, some of these would be the pursuit of holiness/devotion to the Savior; patience and tenderness in training my children; loving my husband more fervently; exercise. (Which of these is not like the others?) Don't be shy, ladies!! Give me some feedback so we can "encourage one another daily..." (Hebrews 3:13).

Now on to the word for the day:

banal- adj- trite