I don’t make New Year’s resolutions. Being a list maker at heart, I used to make a list of things that I hoped to accomplish in each new year but I made the mistake of making these lists too long, biting off more than I could possibly hope to chew. As a result, I’d near the end of each year under a cloud of discouragement. The easy answer was to quit making these lists. No more self imposed guilt!
Though I no longer write my onerous annual lists, I believe that having life goals is a good thing. Faith Keith, a fitness competitor whose blog I recently began reading, posted a simple but wonderful list. I hope she doesn’t mind if I adapt it slightly and adopt it as my own. As the future unfolds, I would like
To know God better
To keep myself in optimum shape.
To continue to meet life’s challenges with excitement and perseverance.
To always give thanks
To support, encourage and fiercely love my husband
While living without my annual list of things to accomplish has been liberating, the beginning of a new year is still a time to reflect on all the possibilities that it might hold. It’s like fresh fallen snow waiting for those first footprints. Where will they lead? As I look ahead to 2011, I look forward to a return visit to Japan, the birth of another grandson and our first short term missions assignment. I wonder what else the year will hold? If I do have one goal for 2011, it is to make it an exclamation mark kind of year; a year in which I trust God to do immeasurably more than I can hope or imagine. (Ephesians 3:20)
Hello 2011!
Following Augustine 