Best of 2015

In 2015, I:

Didn't date anyone

Didn't get engaged

Didn't get married

Didn't have a baby

Wasn't in a wedding

Wasn't a godparent

Didn't get a new job, and

Stayed in the Central Time zone

If you accomplished any of those, you're pretty cool. And I mean that in all honesty.

BUT...I did:

Have a golden birthday

Get a new computer

Get a new phone

Completed 22 academic credits from three institutions

Complete MCM classes (3.70 GPA)

Help lead a Lutheran youth convention

Get my writing published

Train for and run my first half-marathon

Play organ at some new places

Try some new coffeeshops

Run places I've always wanted to go

Make some new friends in hymnody (the best kind of friends!)

Do some hymnological research that none of you know anything about! (But will soon...all in good time!)

In 2016, I will:

Grow stronger in faith in my Savior

Eat

Sleep

Church

Music

Brew coffee

Run every day

Graduate (at least once, God willing)

Give my senior recital

Pass comps and orals

Finish writing a book

Travel

Make new friends

Be surprised by what the Lord sends me!

Happy New Year!

In Jesus' name 
Our work must all be done
If it shall compass our true good and aim,
And not end in shame alone;
For ev'ry deed 
Which in it doth proceed,
Success and blessing gains
Till it the goal attains.
Thus we honor God on high
And ourselves are blessed thereby;
Wherein our true good remains.

- Evangelical Lutheran Hymnary No. 4, v. 1