Reflecting on the past year's journey

Firstly we've decided to write this in English since some of our friends with whom we've shared our journey over the past year had to use Google Translate to follow the blog in the past and we do not want some things to get "lost in translation".

Secondly, the primary reason why we have decided to capture our "reflecting on the past year" in writing is primarily for ourselves, to remember God's guidance and provisioning as we've been discovering how His "divine conspiracy" has been playing out in our lives.

A good friend of us uses the analogy of a roller coaster ride to explain what it is like to go on a journey with God to search for and live out the purpose for which He created us, with unparalleled attention to detail, as David describes it in Psalm 139 (See below).

Although I agree that a roller coaster ride is probably the best analogy in the physical that can be compared to a journey with God, I strongly suspect that it does not even come close to the exhilaration of journeying with God and I believe that we are not even scraping the surface of our journey as yet.

During a roller coaster ride in a short space of time you typically go from laughing and wildly throwing your arms in the air enjoying the wind through your hair to anxiously going into the brace position with your eyes closed and for a brief moment actually fearing for your life. It is because of those anxious times that we have decided to" put our fingers to the keyboard", so that we can remind ourselves that God has been faithful before and because of His unchanging nature He will remain faithful until the end.

Psalm 139 (ESV):
"Psa 139:13 For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb.
Psa 139:14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.
Psa 139:15 My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
Psa 139:16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.
Psa 139:17 How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! "