Wow, what a year.  2007, with all of its inconceivable blessings and growing pains, transformed me.

We meet today
To thank Thee for the era done,
And Thee for the opening one.
John Greenleaf Whittier

I have learned to appreciate suffering. Every time I suffer I transform in ways unimaginable. Although my mind can’t wrap around suffering in a world with an all-loving, all-knowing God, I can’t deny the beautiful transformative nature of suffering.

“Deep unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.” George Eliot