بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِيْمِ

Alhamdulillah, a new year has started. With it come many changes into my outlook in life, how I seek my way forward. 

Jannah-tul-Firdaus has not gone anywhere, the akhirah is still always ever-present as a focus and reminder of where I'm ultimately going to end up, but for the first time in my entire life, I can say that there is a certain joy and anticipation to the journey of this dunya that I'm looking forward to.  

I can't write much yet about the person who helped precipitate these changes, due to personal request (lol), but I can say that Allah is and always has been the best of planners. No matter where I am or what point I think I've reached, always He reminds me that there is a still someone more that I can be, that I am not just the sum of the words I'd written or the experiences I've had. What I can see or perceive is very little, and when I think to go forward with something based on my own limited capacity, it tends not to fit. But when He opens a door for me, bringing into my existence something (or someone, in this case) that I could not have expected, then the possibilities are limitless - if I retain trust in Him.