A couple nights ago we were sitting around waiting for the ball to drop in NYC for NYE and someone on the TV broadcast asked about three words to describe 2008. Of course they were dealing with morons and the person responded with only two words and then an entire phrase and screamed, “Woohoooo!” in a ridiculous high-pitched voice. It really was quite comical.

But that got us to talking about it. What were our three words? We didn’t get to far into the conversation but I’ve been thinking about it since we talked and have arrived at my three words (which is difficult to do…just three words?):

Mission
Discovery
Calling

(An interesting side note: I interrupted the writing of this entry to peruse entries from this time last year and I manged to pick only one word. Interesting.)

There’s something about that that’s a bit broken-record-ish to me, now that I look at it written out…only because I spent the large portion of my late ‘08 bloggings covering this, but while there were some significant moments this past year that were life-changing (reunion with my daughter for the first time in 7 years, personally participated in the salvation of a couple brothers), the realization of my calling and subsequent events and roles are what the defining moments of the year were for me.

I didn’t intend for this to be my 2008 “year in review post” but I think it is now. I wrote the following last year:

I guess that I can just say this: the last 12 months (and still counting) — as a collective — has been pretty much the single best time of my life. I’ve never experienced the greatness and grandeur of how huge my God is like I did in 2007 and continue to in these beginning days of 2008.

The things I was writing about at this time last year seem like child’s play by comparison, but I still would echo the sentiment above.

I. Love. My life.

What are your three words?