2019 Review

Well, I know its a bit late, especially considering January is over in a week, but I've been busy with college and revision and even now, I am writing in my break from revision. Anyways, I'm going to try and remember some of 2019 and give a ' summary' of it.

The start of 2019 was rocky, especially with me skipping a level of college and starting straight on level 3. It meant I had to make new friends and learn all new stuff and basically be almost thrown into the deep end of college. Even though I felt like quitting college in the first few months of 2019, God was always with me, leading me, bringing me peace and being the loving God he always is. I definitely couldn't have made it through college last year without the provision of peace that came from God. When I took my exams for college last year, God was the one I leaned on and he got me through, resulting in me ending the year with a Merit grade and also great friends to move onto the next year with. I would say that last year of college was definitely one of the hardest parts of my life, but it has really helped me to grow in confidence and also helped with my faith, plus I met my best friends.

The summer is honestly a little blurry in terms of personnel stuff, but I'm sure there were ups and downs in terms of it. Mostly I remember having joy in the summer, summer is mostly a joyous time for me. I'm just generally happier in summer. One part of the summer I do remember is that I took my relationship with God for granted. I was in a great place with God, but I started having a mindset that I wasn't aware I was having but it was a mindset of a Sunday relationship, which basically means, I would only care or work on my relationship with God on a Sunday at church. This is a terrible mindset to have and I don't remember exactly when, but I think it was just before limitless festival, or maybe during limitless festival that I realized I was having this mindest and I needed to sort myself out because otherwise my mental state was not gonna be good for very long. So I basically prayed, worshipped and eventually re-found my relationship with Christ. My relationship came out a whole lot stronger for it too.
Limitless Festival was definitely the best thing that happened in 2019. It was just exactly what I had needed for a really long time. It was an answer to my prayers and it happened at exactly the right time. I love how God works, it's so incredible and nothing like I ever imagine. If you want to read more about what God did then go read my Limiless Festival blog post I did in August.

Since Limitless festival, my relationship with Christ has been much stronger, deeper and closer. College has felt better, my worship and faith have felt better and it's because I find myself rooted in Christ more than I ever have. I find it so hard to describe how it feels when something changes drastically in my life, so the only way to describe it is that I do just feel more free and rooted in Christ.
 It's crazy when I think back to the beginning of 2019, it almost feels like a dream, but I know because of it I can worship Jesus and have a faith that is so much stronger than before.

The last couple of months have been good. I've been stressed and anxious at times about all that is coming, such as me turning 18, my last year of college and I'm taking my last exams this week; in a couple years I'll be in University hopefully and In my gap year, who knows what will happen. It's all nerve-racking, but despite the anxiety of it all, I find my comfort and trust in Christ, so I know I don't have to worry about it because it's all under his control. I have a certainty in God that I haven't had in previous years and it feels so good. 

Overall, I'd say that the second half of 2019 was pretty amazing, but it wouldn't have happened without the first part of 2019, so I guess that was alright too. I hope you enjoyed reading my little recap/review of 2019, I certainly enjoyed writing it. I should hopefully be back writing another post soon, probably in 3 weeks or so and I'll most likely be talking about how I think my exams went. So, talk to you then.

BeeBee
xxx

December Recap :)

Well, It's officially 2020!! To be honest, I'm not that bothered, I could be like "Wow, it's crazy. End of a decade, oh my gosh it's mad!" But I actually don't find it that crazy. I will admit I'm a little scared of turning 18 which is the only 'big' thing that is happening to me in 2020, oh and I'm finishing college, which is weird, but apart from that, it's just another year.
Anyways, I haven't written since the start of December, so I thought I'd come and write a quick rundown on the last month of 2019.

Let's start with Dec 2nd. We put the Christmas tree up. even though we weren't gonna be home for Christmas, we still did it. Sadly we take it down on Monday, but when we put it up, it looked cute and I got some nice pictures.

On the 5th, I went to Blue Planet and saw some lizards and fish and stuff. Oh, and I found Nemo.



The 7th and 8th was really fun because we had Kennycarols, which went well the first day but was a bit chaotic the second. The second day, the tent had blown down and we had to transfer the event across the road into CityChurch, but it was a miracle of God because the whole place filled up and we had to keep finding new space for more people. It was crazy, but fun and really cool.

We got to have a cute girls' night on the 11th. My sisters, and my mum and I spent the evening strolling the Christmas markets and then finished the night by watching, now one of my favourite Xmas movies, 'Last Christmas.'



15th - 17th our family headed down to Gosport to celebrate my Granny's 70th birthday. We decorated this cute cafe and Granny had all her friends and it was really sweet.

On the 20th there was a really cool showing of the bible story/Nativity that was all songs and drama and it was very cool. This played at the LiverpoolOne church and it was cleverly done and very enjoyable.

 21st was my littlest bros birthday and he chose to spend it at Air Unlimited.

We had our Rooted party on the 22nd and it was a lot of fun playing games and quizzes and eating cake. 

Then it was Christmas eve (24th), in which we spent opening a few presents, traveling down to Wales and playing sardines with the cousins in the massive house we were staying in.

 

Obviously then, it was the best day of December, it was Christmas Day!! We awoke around 8:00am and opened stockings and got ready, We then sang a few carols together and had a 'spiritual' moment. That lead to lunch, but before lunch, a few of us took a short walk in beautiful Wales, and lucky for us it was blue skies. Once we got back, it was yummy Christmas dinner and then we chilled, played, chatted and took family photos.

Boxing day, I went on another walk with some different members of the family, but this walk was a whole lot more cloudy, foggy and slightly wetter. Apart from the walk, I didn't take many photos because the day was spent playing silly games and just hanging out and spending time together.

Well, 27th was a sad day because we all had to part ways and go home, but I got a pretty picture of the house.

A couple days after we got back, on the 29th, I went to 'The International Horse Show' with a couple friends, which was a lot of fun. My pictures aren't that great because we were way back in one of the back rows, so even though my pictures don't show it, it was very cool.

Skip forward to the 31st aka New Year's eve, and us girls are off shopping in the Trafford Centre for our friend's birthday. She also spent the evening with us and welcomed in 2020 with us by having a sleepover.

Well, that is what I did at the end of 2019. To be honest, December was one of my favorite months of the year. Spending Christmas with all the extended family and staying with them in Wales was so much fun and I really miss them. 2019 was a pretty great year, but I'll talk more about that in a different post. I can't guarantee that it will be up before next month because I go back to college in 3 days and its full steam ahead when I do, so my blog might end up having a couple weeks, maybe even months where there is nothing uploaded, but I will try.

I hope you have enjoyed this "quick" rundown of December, and I will try to upload again soon.

BeeBee

xxx