On this first day of the year 2007, I first wonder, what it will bring. Will it bring trouble and difficulties? Or will be it be a year of excitement and opportunity?
In working on this posting, I eventually realized that the year will bring only what I bring to it. So I look forward into it and desire to live with renewed purpose and dedication.
It is common practice for us humans to make "new years resolutions". We get excited about something and go for it...only, of course, to break it soon after we start.
God, I feel, would have me accomplish certain things this year, and I am driven to achieve them.
I'm not sure I fully see where I am yet to go, but I know He has something for me.
The challenges is to keep that vision and not let it go. It is so easy to be excited when things are new. It is a different matter entirely to do so when routine sets in.
How does one keep their heart and mind focused on the things they are supposed to do? Right now, the blood is pumping and the excitement is there, and I see no way to fail. I know, however, the bumps will come. I'll explore them here at that time.
For now, allow me to say that I want to endeavor this year to:
1. To grow closer in my walk with God.
2. Spend more time with my family, to cherish them deeper.
3. To appreciate what I have more, and to make use of what I have been given.
4. To share myself with some part of the world, especially those in need.
5. Related to the above, to share myself with others is to share my God.
It is in things such as these that life has meaning and purpose. To do things for ones self and for its own sake possesses no meaning.
May God bless this year those things He would have us all to do!
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