Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Happy Belated New Year!

I've had this new post swimming in my head for several weeks now, and I'm still not quite ready to write it all down. I wanted something spectacular and super-motivating for this new year...but honestly, I'm not feeling super inspirational these days. However, I am once again choosing to live what I know...not live how I feel.

Looking back on 2010, it was a year of new truths and challenges. It was a year of baby steps and small wins. It was a year of anticipation...waiting...and change.

So...2011. What do I want for this new year? This will be a year of embracing, for me.
  • I will embrace the new decade I have entered with a smile (and new jeans)! Though I spent most of 2010 agonizing over my 40th birthday, I am finding freedom to be however young I choose to be regardless of the date on the calendar.
  • I will embrace the uncertainty of my life, and trust God's plan over ANY of my own. His plan for our family, His job/career for my husband, and His direction for our future is perfect. Period.
  • I will embrace the truth -His truth- and seek to live in that truth. Having lived so many years in my self-constructed 'la-la' box of my chosen reality, I will embark on a new journey in 2011 of living outside that box in God's truth.
  • I will embrace my feelings and give myself permission to feel what I feel (regardless of whether or not I can actually trust those feelings).

I look ahead to a year that will be full of challenges and hurdles; but I know that those challenges and hurdles will lead to big and small victories. I look forward to looking back on this year and seeing how these things I've chosen to embrace have truly changed my life, changed my family's lives, and even changed the lives of those around me. I embrace whatever it is that God has for me this year...

"Friends, don't get me wrong: By no means do I count myself an expert in all of this, but I've got my eye on the goal, where God is beckoning us onward - to Jesus. I'm off and running, and I'm not turning back." (Philippians 3:14, The Message)

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Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Happy Belated New Year!

Posted by Wendy Sue at 6:26 PM
I've had this new post swimming in my head for several weeks now, and I'm still not quite ready to write it all down. I wanted something spectacular and super-motivating for this new year...but honestly, I'm not feeling super inspirational these days. However, I am once again choosing to live what I know...not live how I feel.

Looking back on 2010, it was a year of new truths and challenges. It was a year of baby steps and small wins. It was a year of anticipation...waiting...and change.

So...2011. What do I want for this new year? This will be a year of embracing, for me.
  • I will embrace the new decade I have entered with a smile (and new jeans)! Though I spent most of 2010 agonizing over my 40th birthday, I am finding freedom to be however young I choose to be regardless of the date on the calendar.
  • I will embrace the uncertainty of my life, and trust God's plan over ANY of my own. His plan for our family, His job/career for my husband, and His direction for our future is perfect. Period.
  • I will embrace the truth -His truth- and seek to live in that truth. Having lived so many years in my self-constructed 'la-la' box of my chosen reality, I will embark on a new journey in 2011 of living outside that box in God's truth.
  • I will embrace my feelings and give myself permission to feel what I feel (regardless of whether or not I can actually trust those feelings).

I look ahead to a year that will be full of challenges and hurdles; but I know that those challenges and hurdles will lead to big and small victories. I look forward to looking back on this year and seeing how these things I've chosen to embrace have truly changed my life, changed my family's lives, and even changed the lives of those around me. I embrace whatever it is that God has for me this year...

"Friends, don't get me wrong: By no means do I count myself an expert in all of this, but I've got my eye on the goal, where God is beckoning us onward - to Jesus. I'm off and running, and I'm not turning back." (Philippians 3:14, The Message)

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