2011.
January 14th, 2011 § Leave a Comment
I started my blog one year ago! As I remember back, I remember this feeling of uncertainty and uneasiness as I was asked to share my goals (or resolutions) for the upcoming year. This year, I felt very different about setting my goals. I feel like I have grown more in the past year, than I have ever grown in a twelve month period of time. My desires, weaknesses, strengths, and passions have really be revealed to me and I have learned a lot more about the person that I am and the person that I desire to become. I have experienced a lot of bitter-sweet revelation as my sins have been revealed to me and my weaknesses have ultimately drawn me closer to God. The blessing of really getting to know myself and how deeply I need and desire the grace and mercy of Jesus, is that it allows for me to shed my ugliness. So, in the upcoming year I would like to achieve these goals (in no particular order)…
-To study, learn and meditate more and more deeply on God’s word.
-To grow a deeper theological understanding.
-To pray, and really pray.
-To give more of myself (time, money, energy, emotionally).
-To grow and strengthen the relationships that I have, and to begin new ones.
-Get closer to becoming the woman that God wants for me to be.
-To gain a deeper skill-set and love for photography.
-To read twenty-five books (once the list is completed, I will share).
-To purify my life (i.e; music, movies, television, conversations, etc, that are keeping me from becoming closer to God).
-To stand firm on the word of God; to trust in Jesus alone.
These goals that I have set for myself are things that have been on my heart for quite some time, I guess I just felt like the new year was a good time acknowledge and apply them.
“People don’t enjoy salt. They enjoy what is salted. We are the salt of the earth. We do not exist for ourselves.”- John Piper.
