I am a motorcycle rider, scratch that. My husband is a motorcycle rider and graciously allows me to accompany him on the back of the bike. ....confession...i have made a big point in our years together that THAT bike doesn't leave the driveway unless i am on the back. The gracious part stays, my husband shares his passion and talents with me with so much grace that i am overwhelmed.
confession....overwhelmd when i am not griping about simply looking at the back of his big ass helmet. yup instead of being grateful for what i see, where i have been, glorying in the freedom that sailing along on two wheels brings me i bitch at him about looking at his 'big ass helmet'. I regale him w/the frustrations of never being able to see where we are going. i piss and moan at this road or that, this beautiful piece of scenery or that with an irregular regularity. He who holds the responsiblity of my safety, his, our future, i complain to.
it has been an ongoing revelation to me that THAT is also the way i treat my Abba. He who goes before me and has my back. He who sent His son to die for me. I spend way more time complaining to Him than Thanking Him.
there are many stories i have learned from my seat on the back of the bike. now to implement all that i have learned His Grace and my husbands astounds me.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
these are the ones who constitute the joy of the name i get to carry of Gigi.
my prayer in 2012 is, more a word i want to focus on, learn about, carry out.DISCIPLESHIP...
webster says....one who accepts and assists in spreading the doctrines of another..
the doctrines of Christ the Bible...He says to love Him with your whole heart and soul and strength and to love others all others......to make disciples of men.......
i have much to learn and can only dream...pray...hope to in the journey towards full discipleship of myself to bring any and all along.....
a year of sinking myself into Obedience and the joy that comes in that struggle.