Raise your hand if you think New Year's Resolutions are lame.
Raise your hand if you make New Year's Resolutions.
Raise your hand if you silently make NYRs so that if you fail, no one will know.
Raise your hand if you tell everyone your NYR because you can't keep your mouth shut.
Yes, I can raise my hand to each of these. Welcome to the schizophrenic mind that I call home! :o)
Okay, now that my tongue in cheek remarks are over about the good ol New Year's Resolution, it's time to be serious. Despite the fact that I do think a NYR can be lame, I do think that it is a great time of the year to evaluate me and my family's spiritual life and make some new goals for us this year (or NYR whatever you want to call it :o)). I guess I struggle with the words NYR because I feel like those are emotional last ditch efforts to achieve the usual desires that the rest of the world is reaching for. I am hoping that for my family that instead of a resolution we choose to make goals that are evaluated and not abandoned when the goal seems out of reach but rather the focus is adjusted so that the goal is now once again in sight.
In Ted Tripp's book Shepherding a Child's Heart he gives great guidelines for evaluating the spiritual lives of our children. I hope to sit down with Jeff this week and really hammer out some spiritual plans for our family and each of our kids. I just want us to be so intentional in training and encouraging our children in God's ways.
As far as my own spiritual life, I am hoping to use the books, Good and Angry and One Thousand Gifts, as well as some dear friends, to help me become a better mommy. This past year has been quite a year of reflection and growth. With being pregnant with triplets, burying Jeremiah, and homeschooling Emma, I have been given new opportunities to see my ugly and to grow from it. To say the very least, it has been the most challenging year of my life. That puts it mildly. Therefore, I hope to take the experiences from the past year, these books, some dear friends, and learn some new disciplines that will help me become a stronger mother and wife. I am excited to see what God holds for me this next year!
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