New Year - New Me!
January 15, 2009How 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!
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I resolve to not make any more resolutions!
I hate New Years Resolutions because they always get broken. But alas, this year I decided to “try again”. Here are mine: Lose weight, Work on my pictures (I have thousands that need to be developed), and stay in better touch with my family, none of which live near me. My resolution list does not include growing closer to God, because that’s a LIFELONG resolution, not a NEW YEARS resolution. I love God and of course want to be closer to Him and more like Jesus. And only He can make me like that. Happy New Year, my Friend! I love you!!!
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