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New Year…..Choose

23 Jan

I really want to do better with my blog this year…. it is not a new year’s resolution, as I never keep those!  I have started working-out at the gym.  I have always said in my life that I hate gyms and will never go to one, well now I am the only one with a gym membership in the family!!!  The end of last year was great and a little hard. For one thing Sarah ended up in the ER with some health stuff but is doing well again. We were able to go to Wichita, KS for our annual Thanksgiving trip which was a lot of fun. December was a milestone birthday for me and I was so blessed to have my sister Ann and her husband Rob come and celebrate with us all in December. It was also Rob’s birthday and Christmas, this led to lots of parties, dinners and entertainment. Every year I pray about a word for the year that I believe the Lords wants me to focus on. This year my word is “Choose”. I know that it will be a season of choice for me and that I will have to choose which is what is for me. The scripture that the Lord placed on my heart was, “choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve,…” Joshua 24:15  I want to choose life instead of death, compliments instead of criticism, joy instead of sadness, love instead of hate, health instead of sickness and the list goes on.

Photos from December 2011

Out with the old in with the new.

Do you make new years resolutions?

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Your word for the year….

5 Jan

The new year has begun and now  2011 is being set into order. With many talking about new years resolutions, which I personally do not participate in as I never seem to keep up my end of the bargain with all those promises, I felt that I wanted to have a ‘word’ for the year.  I was somewhat inspired after hearing some others doing the same.  With some thought and prayer, I decided that the word for my year would be HOPEFUL.   After contemplating this for a while, I was directed to the words, Faith, Hope and Love. It seems to me that one cannot be had without the other. Hope being the rope that connects faith and love! Hope being deferred makes you very hopeless and that being very hard to operate in faith or love. I have much to be hopeful for this year in dreams, visions, prophecies, seeing my kids and family reach goals and aspirations, brothers and sisters in Christ having a heart towards the Lord like never before….. and just in life as a general. I am grateful that God has already resolved many of theses hopes in His word and knowing that He is the same yesterday and forever, I have great hope and walk being very HOPEFUL in everything.

Have any of you chosen a word for the year, let me know what it is if so….

Prov.13:13

Ecc.4:12

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