Wow. I haven't blogged since last year! Obviously my perfect plan of a 3 part blog series never did fully turn into a reality. I don't want to push [Part3] completely aside though. Without going into mushy, sentimental detail...I can say this about my hopes for Christmas Future:::It will include Walker, and watching our new marriage turn into a lasting partnership & ministry. It will include the joy of seeing our family grow and grow and grow some more. It will include laughter, and joy, and tradition, and lots of love. Well. I think thats sappy enough for now. [Although I do mean it, every word!]
Now, as 2011 begins, I want to simply document 11 things that are at the forefront of my mind tonight. Thoughts. Questions. Ideas. Opinions. Just things.
1) This is the year of my wedding!
2) As exciting as that is...I don't want my wedding to define this year. Does that make sense? Its one day. One very important day, mind you. But I've got 364 other days. And if I would be half as excited & intentional about any of those days as I am about June 25th, then THAT would make 2011 a year worth being proud of.
3) My New Years Resolutions are as follows: Drink water more. Go to Target less. Floss every day. Read The Bible. [I found an online plan where you can read 25 days out of the month, and then you get 5 days to be a slacker if you need to. [Thats what I'm talkin' about!]
4) 2011 is a year of questions, for me. I know some things that need to happen in my life this year. But I don't have the slightest clue how those things will come to be. I've decided that instead of constantly searching for answers, I'll just try and know The One who has all the answers more.
5) I ordered my save-the-dates! Our registry is complete! Engagement pictures are in! This Christmas Break marked the switch from talking about doing & planning & ordering & buying...to actually doing all those things. Which is exciting! Not stressful. Not at all. At least thats what I chant inwardly to myself several times a day.
6) Did I mention we registered? I daydream about my china pattern. Seriously. And a yellow, actually...buttercup *swoon* KitchenAid mixer. Which my father thought fit to deem "unnecessary." Well. See if he gets any of my cupcakes.
7) I officially stopped going to the pediatrician and am now going to a "grown up" doctor. I had my very first appointment just this morning! It was frightening and emotionally taxing, to say the least. No one smiles in there and it smells like needles. I plan on never going back. Plus, they didn't have one single copy of Highlights in the waiting room.
8) Another big step: I got an iPod! Nine years after the rest of mankind...
9) "Because of the LORD’s great love we are not consumed, for His compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness. I say to myself, “The Lord is my portion; therefore I will wait for Him.” --Lamentations 3:22-24. I want to start learning/keep learning what it really means to wait on the Lord.
10) A new thought has just formed in my head. Instead of "the year of my wedding"...I think 2011 shall be "the year of waiting." May I find this year, that waiting is a good thing. In waiting comes learning, and joy, and wisdom. May I do more than just wait on my wedding...may I wait on/for/with God.
11) I promised myself I wouldn't blog after midnight. But here I am, awake to see 1am. I think I'll end this entry before I type anything I could regret...but how exciting to post my first blog of the new year! I guess I should add one last simple goal to my list of resolutions:::Blog. More. :)
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