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Resolutions...
I love the beginning of a year.
I love how it feels to me that overnight I have been given a clean slate, an opportunity to start afresh.
To start anew.
It's like that first day of school (when I went as a child!): sharpening all my pencils, organizing my bag, the smell of new books...
And this year, I am excited.
I am GLAD to be welcoming in a new year.
I am looking forward....
and that is a wonderful, wonderful feeling!
And one resolution is uppermost in my mind.
To tame my dragon.
In me resides a dragon, that comes to the fore whenever I am hard pressed by my own children (why is it that it is our own children with whom our patience can waiver so thin sometimes?).
It is the dragon of Harsh Tone.
And it pains me to see the affect my tone can have on my precious charges.
And so this year, I am undertaking, to slay this dragon.
This is going to be the year ... I am resolved.
And yet, in reading this timely post, I was reminded:
I can recognize the fear that grips her heart, because I too wonder the same...
"Fear that I am impotent of change, that new ways can’t be my ways. What if I will always be this way… (fill in the blank with fear of personal choice: self-centered, overweight, uneducated, unmotivated, debt-ridden, angry, anxious, apathetic, unfulfilled…)"
I love how it feels to me that overnight I have been given a clean slate, an opportunity to start afresh.
To start anew.
It's like that first day of school (when I went as a child!): sharpening all my pencils, organizing my bag, the smell of new books...
And this year, I am excited.
I am GLAD to be welcoming in a new year.
I am looking forward....
and that is a wonderful, wonderful feeling!
And one resolution is uppermost in my mind.
To tame my dragon.
In me resides a dragon, that comes to the fore whenever I am hard pressed by my own children (why is it that it is our own children with whom our patience can waiver so thin sometimes?).
It is the dragon of Harsh Tone.
And it pains me to see the affect my tone can have on my precious charges.
And so this year, I am undertaking, to slay this dragon.
This is going to be the year ... I am resolved.
And yet, in reading this timely post, I was reminded:
- trying harder only results in harder trials
- to forge new tracks across this year will needs more than simply sheer effort, gritty determination.
I can recognize the fear that grips her heart, because I too wonder the same...
"Fear that I am impotent of change, that new ways can’t be my ways. What if I will always be this way… (fill in the blank with fear of personal choice: self-centered, overweight, uneducated, unmotivated, debt-ridden, angry, anxious, apathetic, unfulfilled…)"
But here is the sheer beauty, the gift of grace...
Impossible resolutions require God solutions.
And so daily, I need to fall upon Christ, and in him and through him, slay this dragon once and for all.
Cross on over here to read her 5 suggestions for making resolutions that stick....I love them...such wisdom as I set out on this challenge....
may your resolutions be birthed in Him this year....
A New Look....
...for a New Year!
Happy New Year to you all!
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
~Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1850
May you ring in the truth this Year...
Every man should be born again on the first day of January.
Start with a fresh page.
Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary,
or let down one, according to circumstances;
but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more,
with his face to the front,
and take no interest in the things that were and are past.
~Henry Ward Beecher
And may you set your face like flint
to the goodness He has in store,
laying behind all of 2011...
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