Cyndi Dodson

How many of you have made New Years’ Resolutions? I have made a few. Some are the same ones that I make every year - this will be the year that I will finally look like Cindy Crawford, drink half my body weight in ounces of water everyday, excercise, eat more tofu and less chocolate. Well, we will see how that goes.

If you notice, most of these resolutions have to do with beauty and trying to look a certain way. I believe that we put such a high value on outward beauty that we forget to look at a person’s inward beauty. We use the old addage and “judge books by their covers” and we never get to know what is on the inside pages of a person’s heart. I have been guilty of this more times than I care to mention.

As I look forward to 2009, I want to focus on so many things, especially the ones that don’t include tofu and exercise. I want my heart to be healthy - having a love for others. I want to have a healthy smile - encouraging the ones that God places in my path with my words and my smile. I want to have healthy eyes - focusing on other’s inward beauty and trying to see people in the way that God sees them. I want to be the person that God has planned for me to be and fulfill the purposes that He has laid in my heart - whatever that looks like.

I would love to know some of your resolutions and maybe we can learn some things from each other!