Sherman on the Mount: Annus mirabilis

Major highlights for me in the year 2005:

... went to the Vatican (January)
... mourned the death of Charis, Shih Tzu x Maltese (May)
... welcomed the arrival of Carissa Charis, Cocker Spaniel (May)

... received news that I would be moving to Seremban (June)
... started blogging (August)
... purchased a brand new laptop (August)

... went to Indonesia (September)
... went to South Africa (mid-October to mid-November)
... relocated to Seremban (end-November)

... established a covenant (December)

It has been quite an eventful year, yes. Looking at the year ahead, what intrigues me most is not the thought of what may be, but how our finite lives are so bound by the constraints of space and time. These two abstract dimensions define so much of our being that our every articulation, even in speaking of God, betrays this inevitable reality.

I step into the new year with no particular resolution. Indeed, I do have my secret hopes and dreams, but I am embarassed at how these hopes and dreams are so myopically defined by space and time. On the lighter side, I am after all only human. But there is a bigger dream that I can embrace... the dream of a God who trascends the boundaries of space and time. But when one desires to embrace God's dreams, it renders one helpless and utterly vulnerable because his dreams are dauntingly beyond my capability to fathom or grasp. Thus, once again, the challenge of total abandonment...

2006 will be a new time and a new space, when God keeps writing the story of how he continuously intrudes into human history in a real and personal way, when he keeps reminding us that he is God. With God as the inifinite Author, 2006 will undoubtedly be an annus mirabilis, a year of wonders.