2011. It's here.
What are you gonna do with it?
Any big changes, maybe some little changes?
I like New Year's, I like it a lot. It speaks change, it whispers of hope, it says "Hey, you can make a fresh start!"
No matter where I am or what I have accomplished, it seems there is always room to change, to grow, to freshen up.
2010, I am marking as my year of self pity and a touch of the lazy bug.
So, 2011 I am challenging to be my year of contentment and joy, along with a touch of the doer, gett'r done bug.
This could be difficult for me, because I have a brood of wonderful "doers" in this house. If the laundry isn't done, my husband will gladly do it. If I need something put away my daughter will gladly do it. These things aren't bad, but my heart is. Lazy is why I didn't do the laundry to begin with.
I will seriously roam around the house putzing on nonessential things just to avoid my household chores.
My desire is to seek the Lord diligently in this and become a person who finds joy in my work and joy in the position that I have been given as homemaker, wife, mother, and school instructor.
This all, once again, stems from learning how to love others better.
Your blog is full of evidence of sincere and deep pondering of life and self. I applaud your willingness to enter this arena. You ask good questions that many can relate to at this time of year.
ReplyDeletePapa S and I have been reading the book CRAZY LOVE and watching its videos online, http://www.crazylovebook.com. Today's video was "Just Stop and Think".
Too much of the time, we place too little value on the contemplative. A person sitting in his chair and staring out the window would never be assumed to be working. No! Thinking is not equated with work. Sometimes we even berate ourselves for thinking and not "doing".
Nothing ranks higher for being productive in our thinking than the study and the speaking aloud of God's Word.
The Bible places supreme value in the thought life. "As a man thinks in his heart, so is he," Solomon wrote. Jesus asserted that sin's gravity lay in the idea itself, not just the act. Paul admonished the church at Philippi to have the mind of Christ, and to the same people he wrote: "Whatever is true, whatever is pure... if there be any virtue... think on these things" (Philippians 4:8). In the words of aging David to his son Solomon: "Acknowledge the God of your father, and serve him with wholehearted devotion and with a willing mind, for the LORD searches every heart and understands every motive behind the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you." (1 Chronicles 28:9).
Keep up the brave exercise of thinking of life as its happening Carrie. Remember the mind is the battlefield. There are forces at work contending for your thought life. Learn to listen to the Spirit speak truth. Sometimes I have to speak out loud the truth God has told me just to keep my mind focused on the truth. You can really own the truth you fight for in your mind.
Thanks for your willingness to share your thinking and battles!! I relate to the things your write. Love ya!!