Happy 2009!

Yes, I know I'm a bit late with these wishes . . . but nevertheless, I pray that God will bless you richly in this new year and that you will experience all that He has for you! I love these words from the book of Ephesians:

I pray that out of His glorious riches

He may strengthen you with power

through His Spirit in your inner being,

so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith.

And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love,

may have power, together with all the saints,

to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ,

and to know this love that surpasses knowledge --

that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more

than all we ask or imagine,

according to His power that is at work within us,

to Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus

throughout all generations, forever and ever! Amen.

(Ephesians 3:16-21)