New Year

Official New Year's resolution or not, when January comes around I can't help but reflect on the past year and look forward to the new, and, think about what I would like to change or improve. I know that I am far from perfect and there is lots of room for improvement in many areas, but I can't focus on them all at once. So, right now I am trying simply to live life with passion. Mom was right: if it's worth doing, it's worth doing right. That doesn't just apply to completing the task, but doing it with a joyful heart. If it's worth doing, it's worth being passionate about and enjoying it, what ever “it” is.

I think that (especially for us procrastinators) a complacent mind is one way that the enemy keeps us from being a threat. If there is no deadline set, it is so easy for a task to get pushed aside. But then we keep ourselves from really being productive in any meaningful way. I want to fight against that, passionately attacking what ever is set before me.

When we were in 11th grade, my friend and I were at the Junior/Senior banquet for our homeschool group. The party favor was a small picture frame with the Bible verse the senior class had chosen for that year. I hadn't particularly noticed it, but my friend picked up the frame and read the verse with such passion that it has stayed with me since. The verse was Philippians 3:14, “I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.” (King James Version)

What I want to strive for this year is to remember to always press on towards the high calling of God in all that I do, whatever it may be.