New Year

Well, 2014 is a thing of the past. If I had to choose... 2014 would be one of my favorite years I think. I've never spent a year more selflessly. Is that proper english? I hope you know what I mean. In 2014 I've seen more miracles than in my other 20 years combined. I've seen more of everything, to be honest. More kindness, more heartbreak, poverty, wealth.. etc. Most importantly, I think, is the growth I have seen in myself in the last year.

One of my FAVORITE things I have learned and come to accept is the fact that it's OKAY to not be perfect. It's okay to question and doubt. It's okay to disagree and make mistakes. Not only is it okay, but that's how it was intended! It was never part of the plan for us to be perfect, even from the beginning. 

{Tangent} Isn't it so funny that it is easy for you to read this and say, Carlee, of course you aren't supposed to be perfect! it's okay that you aren't! But take a second and think about yourself. I think each of us have higher expectations for ourselves than we do for the rest of the world. 

I, like the rest of you, I'm sure, have high hopes of losing 10 pounds and running a race for {insert favorite charity here} this year. I would love to become the perfect daughter and maybe even the perfect wife in the coming year. But, I think an even more important goal for myself is to get rid of the idea and the expectation of perfection from myself and from everyone around me. 

What I do want to do in the coming year is become more like my Savior in all aspects of my life. He was perfect in every way so we don't have to be. Think about it. 


I am grateful to 2014 for giving me the experience I need to be able to say along with Paul that "Most gladly therefore will I...Glory in my infirmities" Because I know "[His] grace is sufficient for [me]: [His] strength is made perfect in weakness"(2 Corinthians 12:9) and to be able to see that "if men come unto me I will show unto them their weakness. I give unto men weakness that they may be humble; and my grace is sufficient for all men that humble themselves before me; for if they humble themselves before me, and have faith in me, then will I make weak things become strong unto them."

I'm going to try my very best to be better at blogging weekly... Writing can be pretty therapeutic for me. 

Wishing you all the best in 2015.

xoxo
Car