My Resolve for the New Year

Like any normal person, I look forward to the new year ahead for the new beginning that it represents. Of course any day could be a new beginning, but New Year just seems to be the most appropriate time to start a new life, new plan - new anything! It does not matter that most of our new year plans and resolutions fly out of the window in less than a month...we don't lose heart. First of all, it's an accepted eventuality. Second of all, we still have the next year to look forward to, to recycle the same resolution! :)

I could not help but reflect on the year 2007 and what an amazing year this has been for me! When I become great someday, and someone writes my biography, 2007 will be marked as a very significant year in my life. Would probably take two chapters of the book. And for you who were were part of my life in 2007, you get 50% off! :)

I have never felt more blessed than I did this year. First, I got married to the most wonderful man on the planet! Considering that he belongs to the almost extinct species of good men, it's a miracle I found him - and that he actually married me! If you know me, you'll understand why that is a miracle :) Second, my relationship with my mother is stronger than ever. We made up for lost time and it's like I have found a new friend. As an added bonus, I have a new mother - my mother-in-law. So I actually gained two mothers this year! I was also blessed with great challenges and great people that touched my life and helped me grow. But if there's really one thing I am thankful for, it is that this year, by God's amazing grace, I found HIM and accepted Christ as my personal savior. This alone is enough for me to be thankful for a lifetime :)

As the new year dawns, my heart is filled with anticipation that 2008 will be an even more wonderful year, and that God will just continue to bless me and my family, pleasantly surprise me, and blow away my expectations as he reveals his plans for me on how to be the salt of this earth.

Having said that, my New Year's resolution is to totally submit to His will and continue to walk with Him in faith, to wherever He leads me. I resolve to further grow as a Christian by continuing to know Him through His words, His people and creation. I resolve to live a life that glorifies Him and manifests His life...to be done with my old self and put on a new self, one that is compassionate, gentle, kind and patient, so that every life I encounter will feel the love of Christ.

Now, again, if you know me, you know how difficult a challenge the above will be! So don't be surprised if I slip once in a while :) I am not making excuses this early, but the enemy is strong, and I will slip, and when I do, please be an angel and remind me of what I have resolved to be. I have faith that God will use you to perfect me :)

OF course I still plan to lose weight, save more, read more, watch less TV, travel more, sleep less, have more fun...and please, do remind me when I slip about these too...but let's just say these are the plans I could always recycle next year! :)