Can I just say that I love making New Year’s Resolutions?
I love making New Year’s Resolutions.
Joshua makes fun of me, because he is of the mindset that if you’re going to make a change in your life, then just MAKE A CHANGE IN YOUR LIFE ALREADY, Good Freaking Lord. But me? I love this. I’m sure I’ve blogged about it before, but I need this fresh chance, this opportunity to wipe the slate clean and start over, and I know that there are probably hundreds of thousands of people doing this with me. I mean, not WITH ME with me, but making New Year’s Resolutions just the same. Like gym buddies. Dawn, where are you? Do you read this? I know you’ll understand. Someone tell Dawn I miss her. Thanks.
So I have a few to mention here and several that are more of the wanting-to-better-myself-and-create-good-habits-while-getting-rid-of-bad-ones that I’m not going to mention.
The List, in no particular order except which they came out of my head:
Blog More.
For both the photo blog and the written blog. They both got pushed to the side for other pursuits, and due to laziness and a lack of hard drive space for the former (which brings me to one of my better-myself and get-organized resolutions of cleaning out my hard drive and organizing my digital photo library - maybe that will be one of my 43 things that gets crossed off this year…). The goal is once a day for both sites, even if it’s just a link.
Finish the Novel.
I took December off to recover from November and enjoy the holidays. My goal is to finish by the end of February and finish editing by the end of May. I think that’s reasonable.
Get Out of Debt.
‘Nuff said. At the rate I’m planning, we should be good by September, hopefully sooner. Not counting the car payments, which should be sometime in 2012 (2011 at the rate I’m going for that).
Find a Spiritual Mentor.
This is something I’ve missed since we left Texas, between Tracey and Becky and Mark and Shannon, I always had someone to go to, and I’ve missed that here. I have someone in mind, and I’ll think she’ll go for it. My goal, if this becomes a reality, is to meet at least once a month, specifically for spiritual direction/discipleship type of stuff.
Observe the Offices and the Christian Calendar.
For those of you scratching your heads, did you grow up Baptist, too? Andrew starting observing the Feast Days at the beginning of Advent, and as the Brits say, I think it’s a lovely idea. So I’ll start with the New Year. Is tomorrow anything? Will I have missed one already? I’d love any points to resources on this if you have them.
How many is that? Five? That should do. I don’t want to bore you or anything…
Happy New Year!
I’m looking forward to the blogging more resolution. I miss reading yours often!
yeah, if you find resources on the offices and the christian calender. let me know. i am glad to hear you will be blogging more often. i do miss reading them when you don’t post. y’all need to come up here soon too.
http://www.amazon.com/Celtic-Daily-Prayer-Northumbrian-Office/dp/0551028459/ref=sr_1_48?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1199469219&sr=8-48
This is a really good one. I did body work with Andy Raine while in Shetland and attended many of his sessions on worship and the celtic communities. He was great and his family is awesome too. Ya know really cool wife and a buncha kids all free like.
I think I will join you on keeping the offices. This is something I want to get back into as well. I love the rhythms and it is so good for kids too to feel connected to the earth and and spirit and to see the connectedness of it all. I find that holding the offices and observing the seasonal celebrations brings more wholness. I know of another book that is smaller and real simple. I am trying to find the link to it….
love ya
whitney
First, I need to say that I loved, loved, loved the God is in Texas post. I read that out loud to Daniel and we both laughed.
About the Christian calendar, you may have already figured this out but after Christmas you have the 12 Days of Christmas. Leading up to Christmas day, we celebrate the coming of His incarnation, then on Christmas and the 12 days after we celebrate His incarnation. One of the feasts is the Feast of the Epiphany (which was today). But, I don’t know the others off hand. Even though it’s over this year, at least you know for next year.
here are few online resources for the liturgical calendar. we methodists know our liturgy.
http://www.easterbrooks.com/personal/calendar/index.php
http://www.universalis.com/calendar.htm
http://www.cyberfaith.com/liturgical_year.cfm
http://www.wf-f.org/LitCal2008/index.html