The year that was (2004) took care of all my woes and mishaps. So I am very much looking forward to a better 2005. I wouldn’t call 2004 a bad year though, I look at it now as the ultimate refiner’s fire. Like most of us, I too am God’s work in progress. He will not stop honing me until I become “perfect” to serve his ultimate purpose.
We all have our own share of ups and downs, tears and joys, failures and triumphs; though of varying intensities — these and all made us a stronger, better (if not yet perfect) persons that we are now. Whatever you conceive God to be, keep the faith that He has good plans for you. I haven’t browsed the bible for eons. But I haven’t found the passage below more apt than it is now.

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
There is a time for everything,
and a season for every activity under heaven:
a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,
a time to kill and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,
a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance,
a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
a time to embrace and a time to refrain,
a time to search and a time to give up,
a time to keep and a time to throw away,
a time to tear and a time to mend,
a time to be silent and a time to speak,
a time to love and a time to hate,
a time for war and a time for peace.

HAPPY YEAR 2005 TO ALL!!