New Year's Resolution | Part 2
I don't normally pick a Bible verse or a word that serves as an anthem for a new year, but I do know a lot of people who do.
Tonight while I was loading the dishwasher and ducking down behind the island and then jumping up to the giggles of my kiddos, a verse came to mind...
"She is clothed in strength and dignity; she can laugh at the days to come." Proverbs 31:25.
As it turns out I can't laugh at the days to come because I am too worried about what is going to happen next!!!
After I looked that verse up and read over it several times, I felt a bit lighter, a bit easier than I have in several days.
Even just a tiny bit of relief is an answer to prayer.
So that will be my verse for this year, and I am pretty excited about it. I plan to write it out and put it in my car, on my mirror in the bathroom, wherever I can see it over and over again.
In continuation of my last post, I have been thinking a little bit about my New Years resolutions. Here is what I have jotted down for now:
- Don't take crap from anyone. That doesn't mean seek out and be mean to people, but it does mean standing firm, working hard not to get offended and stand up for myself and for my family.
- Take care of me. Heaven knows I haven't been doing that. I need to do something at least once a day to bring restoration to myself!
- Lose weight.
- Do something fun for our 10 year anniversary. Mike and I will be married ten years this coming year! I have a couple ideas in mind and a couple of secret boards on Pinterest devoted to this topic.
- Run that 5K. (Wink wink) Maybe someday I will do it.
- Potty-train my boys. (Probably at the same time at the rate we are going.)
- Turn Grayson's diagnosis - whatever it might be - over to God. (Probably something I will need to do daily.)
- Serve more vegetables!
- Go back to the diabetic diet. In moderation.
- Continue to cultivate friendships. I have been AMAZED by the friendships I have living here. I lived in Columbus for something like six years and we had just two couples that Mike and I considered friends. I made some friends at work - a couple that I still talk to even though I have been gone for three years.
When we moved back here, I wondered who we would be friends with - maybe some of the people I have known for years, but wouldn't you know it?? A good majority of my friends here are people I just met since we moved back!
They are women whose husbands are in the same profession as mine (we share in the fun reality of being LEO wives), women whose situations with their kids are just like mine, women I just happened to run into during a chance meeting in a hallway at church after a VBS meeting (Hi Kel!) And sweeter yet are friends that have been close to my parents for years but have taken my little family under their wing. I have been so blown away by this. It has been a huge answer to prayer - to have "family" here even though besides my parents and inlaws, my family lives out of state.
So there you have it. My goals for 2016.
I tried to take a cute selfie, but those two words don't go together so well where I am involved! Ha! So I thought I would use the bitmoji avatar I created who looks like me (thanks to my cousin Jennifer for getting me obsessed with it!) :-P
Tonight while I was loading the dishwasher and ducking down behind the island and then jumping up to the giggles of my kiddos, a verse came to mind...
"She is clothed in strength and dignity; she can laugh at the days to come." Proverbs 31:25.
As it turns out I can't laugh at the days to come because I am too worried about what is going to happen next!!!
After I looked that verse up and read over it several times, I felt a bit lighter, a bit easier than I have in several days.
Even just a tiny bit of relief is an answer to prayer.
So that will be my verse for this year, and I am pretty excited about it. I plan to write it out and put it in my car, on my mirror in the bathroom, wherever I can see it over and over again.
In continuation of my last post, I have been thinking a little bit about my New Years resolutions. Here is what I have jotted down for now:
- Don't take crap from anyone. That doesn't mean seek out and be mean to people, but it does mean standing firm, working hard not to get offended and stand up for myself and for my family.
- Take care of me. Heaven knows I haven't been doing that. I need to do something at least once a day to bring restoration to myself!
- Lose weight.
- Do something fun for our 10 year anniversary. Mike and I will be married ten years this coming year! I have a couple ideas in mind and a couple of secret boards on Pinterest devoted to this topic.
- Run that 5K. (Wink wink) Maybe someday I will do it.
- Potty-train my boys. (Probably at the same time at the rate we are going.)
- Turn Grayson's diagnosis - whatever it might be - over to God. (Probably something I will need to do daily.)
- Serve more vegetables!
- Go back to the diabetic diet. In moderation.
- Continue to cultivate friendships. I have been AMAZED by the friendships I have living here. I lived in Columbus for something like six years and we had just two couples that Mike and I considered friends. I made some friends at work - a couple that I still talk to even though I have been gone for three years.
When we moved back here, I wondered who we would be friends with - maybe some of the people I have known for years, but wouldn't you know it?? A good majority of my friends here are people I just met since we moved back!
They are women whose husbands are in the same profession as mine (we share in the fun reality of being LEO wives), women whose situations with their kids are just like mine, women I just happened to run into during a chance meeting in a hallway at church after a VBS meeting (Hi Kel!) And sweeter yet are friends that have been close to my parents for years but have taken my little family under their wing. I have been so blown away by this. It has been a huge answer to prayer - to have "family" here even though besides my parents and inlaws, my family lives out of state.
So there you have it. My goals for 2016.
I tried to take a cute selfie, but those two words don't go together so well where I am involved! Ha! So I thought I would use the bitmoji avatar I created who looks like me (thanks to my cousin Jennifer for getting me obsessed with it!) :-P
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