Almost one year ago to the day, I published my first blog entry. My goal, then, was to write an entry at least once a month. Being the perfectionist that I am, I took the "if you can't do something right, don't do it at all" approach... hence, the reason my second entry is 11 months late. I scribbled a time or two and came close, but at the end of the day, all I ended up with was crumpled up paper (yes, I still like using pen & paper for my rough draft), frustration, and an "oh! look at the pretty bird!". In our world today, with so many distractions, my writer's block set up house and stayed awhile. Yet, anyone who knows me well enough knows that I'm too strong-willed to be defeated. So, one year later, here I go again....
I haven't really made any New Year's resolutions this year. I'm not opposed to the idea, I just haven't. Personally, I think it's great to think about short-term and long-term goals and make plans for achieving them- just as long as we don't make idols out of these goals, and we allow flexibility for life to interfere sometimes...because life surely will. My only resolution last year was to read the Bible through in a year. I even purchased a one-year Bible with a chronological reading plan (my brain works better this way), hoping to make it easier. Did I finish? No. Did I even make it halfway through? Sadly, no. But, I didn't beat myself up either, and I also haven't given up. Some days, I have to re-read chapters, because I've forgotten what I've read, but I'm still reading...at a snail's pace maybe, but plugging along nonetheless. If it takes me five years to read a one year Bible, I'm okay with that.
At the moment, my only goal for 2015 is to keep on keeping on- keep loving (& loving well), keep reading, keep learning & growing, keep writing, and keep fighting the culture's distractions that try to rob me of these things. One area in particular that I am focusing on right now is prayer. To be honest, it's an area that I struggle with. Sometimes, I feel like I'm just rambling meaningless words.. and hitting repeat. John 1:1 says "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." To know God is to know His Word...and, if I know His Word, then I would know how important prayer is to Him....and if I love Him like I say I do, then prayer should be important to me, as well. So, over the last few weeks, I've been studying about prayer and what Scripture teaches us about it, and spending more time devoted to actually praying. Not a bad way to start the new year!
So, here's to 2015! May yours be blessed! And may you see God's hand at work in your triumphs and in your trials this year! See you again whenever I see you;).... Tracie
"Abide in me, and I will abide in you. Just as the branch cannot produce fruit by itself
unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in me." ~ John 15:4
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