I'm looking forward to the new year. This year hasn't been the greatest so I'm looking forward to it being over. I do have a confession.. With my newly acquired small sum of money I broke down and bought something for myself. It's something i really wanted and really needed. i bought a new journal. i used a coupon!!! ha! With the start of the new year I decided as I do every year that I need a new me. I'm using the journal to record the process. I have a hundred journals filled with scribbles and doodles and notes and i hardly ever go back and read. they all collect on my shelf. this journal is different. this one is a story. my story. my devotions, what God is doing in my life. Im alternating between my online blog which a small handfull of people read and my inner most thought in my brand spanking new journal. there are just somethings that i can't say online. Like how i secretly love hilary duff. those are just things im not sure i want the world to know ;)
so Ledge (My college minister) got me thinking. As i reflect on this year and i think about how God has molded me into a more godly woman. He has taken everything from me to show me that I don't need it and to deepen my faith. With God chiseling away I decided that I would start my new year resolutions a little early. Usually there is one or two things that i quickly think up and jot down on a post-it and stick it to my mirror. I decided to really think about it this year. What do I really want to change. What do i really want to do with the year of 2009. This is what i came up with:
- Fall in love. with God.
- to be in continuous prayer
- To be a blessing to someone in anyway at least once a day
- to love myself
- to lose weigt (this is on my list every year)
- To go to Zimbabwe
- To see an African Giraffe
- To read my bible every single day
- Allow God to get blessings through me instead of to me
- To get out of debt or at least 1/2 way
- Save an animal
- Start a new hobby
- witness a miracle
- To be a miracle
- To start reading books and starting a library
- Stop gossiping
- To visit Reba and Jd
- To see my Mom
- Hug my brother
- Meet my niece and nephew
- To give to others as they have given so much to me this year
- Keep my license
- Get jim to come to church with me
- Find someway to repay heather and eric
- Walk on a beach
Thats what i want to do with the year 2009. I'm gonna keep track of what i do and what i don't do.
so feel free to hold me to it!! maybe i can knock them all out by february. HA!
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Great list! I will pray that you ahcieve most of these next year if not all of them!........Hope you have a Fabulous Friday!......In Christ's Love....Monic