New Year's Resolutions

I am not a very good blogger, am I???  I am as consistent with blogging as I am with a lot of things in my life which is "not very!"   I want to be consistent and disciplined, really I do.

As the New Year approached, I could feel "New Year's Resolutions" welling up in my head. Yet I refused.  Personally, New Year's resolutions only bring disillusionment and disappointment.  I refused to make resolutions this year.  I however did ask God to help me make one commitment at a time and give me the ability to follow through.  Then I would ask him to guide me to the next commitment and provide the grace and ability to keep it.  I want to rejoice with each little " keeping of the commitment," being grateful for the success of the moment instead of concerned with how it fits into a 12 month period.

My first commitment was to be a consistent attender of the  Sunday School class studying J.I. Packer's Knowing God.  I want to complete the book and participate in the weekly class.  I have almost finished chapter 3 and have attended the first two classes.  Woo Hoo!  Go Linda. I am rejoicing in what I have completed so far.

I do have several other plans floating in my head but confess I am afraid they are baby Resolutions instead of gentle nudging from the Holy Spirit.  One of these is to "run one 5K a month".  Okay, so this was someone else's resolution from last year that I read about in the Newspaper.  Great idea, but is it something I am to commit to? Could it be that it is just someone else's great idea that I wanted to copy so I can be celebrated like the ladies in the Newspaper?  Good question.

Another brain child I had was to have specific days of the week for specific activities.  For example, Monday would be "write my lesson plans" day.  Thursday would be "shopping" day. Saturday would be "blogging" day. That has not worked out so well.  And I can feel disillusionment and disappointment creeping in.  So I am going to toss that one out the window for now. It was a resolution, not a God guided commitment.  I think it was too big. There were too many spaces to breed failure.  I do believe God is leading me in the way of discipline in my daily (and weekly) life.  Therefore I am going to break that big plan into small bite size pieces.  For now I am going to post at least one thing a week on my blog.  I will start there and see what's next. Well, I have fulfilled my commitment for this week.  Woo Hoo. Go Linda!

Rejoicing in the success of the moment!