New Year New Resolve
It is common for us to make "resolutions" at the start of a new year. I have needed to implement some changes for quite some time As 2013 begins I seem to have new resolve to have a quality life filled with purpose and meaning.
Webster's online dictionary defines resolution as: "The state of being resolved, settled, or determined; firmness; steadiness; constancy; determination.That which is resolved or determined; a settled purpose; determination."
I need to be settled, determined, firm, steady and constant regarding my goals and the things I know I am supposed to be doing.
It can be helpful to ensure follow through on our intentions, if we are open about our need and enlist the support of others. A friend who hosts a Facebook page entitled Living Intentionally posted this comment: A blessed & happy New Year to all! If you, like me, have some dreams or goals for 2013, for getting in better shape, here's the encouragement: we'll all do better if we tell someone else what we intend to do, and find someone else (or a little group) to do it with. It will be a lot more fun, as well!
Therefore, I will publicly acknowledge here the things I need to improve upon starting today:
At the close of 2012, I was sharing with dear friends that I sometimes wonder if I have accomplished anything of significance or if I have anything meaningful left to do. These kind and wise friends encouraged me that most assuredly I am not done with having a life of purpose and even if I accomplished nothing else, that which is of utmost value is knowing Christ
I wish you the best in 2013. Pursue your goals but above all encounter God.
Webster's online dictionary defines resolution as: "The state of being resolved, settled, or determined; firmness; steadiness; constancy; determination.That which is resolved or determined; a settled purpose; determination."
I need to be settled, determined, firm, steady and constant regarding my goals and the things I know I am supposed to be doing.
It can be helpful to ensure follow through on our intentions, if we are open about our need and enlist the support of others. A friend who hosts a Facebook page entitled Living Intentionally posted this comment: A blessed & happy New Year to all! If you, like me, have some dreams or goals for 2013, for getting in better shape, here's the encouragement: we'll all do better if we tell someone else what we intend to do, and find someone else (or a little group) to do it with. It will be a lot more fun, as well!
Therefore, I will publicly acknowledge here the things I need to improve upon starting today:
- Better Health and Weight Management - eat more healthfully, drink more water exercise
- Learn Spanish - use rosetta Stone aas well as other resources and request help from fluent speakers
- Read more
- Search out strategies to more effectively help kids learn
- study and practice writing skills especially for children
- post regularly on my blog
At the close of 2012, I was sharing with dear friends that I sometimes wonder if I have accomplished anything of significance or if I have anything meaningful left to do. These kind and wise friends encouraged me that most assuredly I am not done with having a life of purpose and even if I accomplished nothing else, that which is of utmost value is knowing Christ
I wish you the best in 2013. Pursue your goals but above all encounter God.
Philippians 3:10-13
[For my
determined purpose is] that I may know Him [that I may progressively become
more deeply and intimately acquainted with Him, perceiving and recognizing and
understanding the wonders of His Person more strongly and more clearly], and
that I may in that same way come to know the power outflowing from His
resurrection [[b]which it exerts over believers], and that I
may so share His sufferings as to be continually transformed [in spirit into
His likeness even] to His death, [in the hope]
11 That if possible I may attain to the [[c]spiritual and moral] resurrection [that
lifts me] out from among the dead [even while in the body].
12 Not that I have now attained [this ideal], or have
already been made perfect, but I press on to lay hold of (grasp) and
make my own, that for which Christ Jesus (the Messiah) has laid hold of me and
made me His own.
13 I do not consider, brethren, that I have captured and
made it my own [yet]; but one thing I do [it is my one aspiration]: forgetting
what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead,
14 I press on toward the goal to win the [supreme and
heavenly] prize to which God in Christ Jesus is calling us upward.
Comments
Thank you for sharing God's encouraging words and for articulating what most of us ponder - have we and are we making a difference? What matters is that we know God more and encounter Him.