2012~

Here is comes. The NEW Year.

I find it interesting that when this time rolls around, people suddenly feel very inspired to start workout plans, read books, write books even, or repair a relationship. And by the end of that first week, the goal has been deemed impossible. Or never even started. Personally, I find this depressing. Not inspiring at all.

I think it might have to do with us trying to redeem and redefine our lives. We are trying to make things NEW. Without the only one who can do it.

Ask anyone, I am stubborn. And I have a work ethic that will kill itself before accepting defeat. I'm am overcomer. But sometimes, I forget to check in with God before a gallivant off to conqueror the world. Sometimes I end up fixing something for someone else that they were meant to learn from/grow in. And my attempt to do good actually perpetuated bad. Interesting right? How our lives overlap?

My point is, making a goal for yourself is like swearing to do something. You'd better do it if you say you're going to. Because that affects others-sometimes in a huge way that you will never know. That is why prayer is so important. We are meant to be in constant conversation with God. Not talking all the time (the Bible tells us not to talk God's ear off about idiotic stuff), but listening. Where does He want you? How does He want you to approach this situation? Is this where He's calling you?

Because, it's ben my experience that when you grit your teeth and run for a wall that God has not called you to move, you run into it. And it hurts. Generally, you bounce backwards and fall on your back, the wind knocked out of you and your nose bruised. And then you're skeptical about fully pursuing the path God HAS called you too.

So, pray, read, listen. Make goals with God. He's got some pretty cool ones in mind for you this year.

"12 Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. 13 Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.

20 But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ..."

-Philippians 3:12-14, 20

<3 Katie

In 2011 I have . . .
-Read 46 books
-Finished writing 2 books
-Published 2 short stories
-Moved halfway across the U.S.
-Done really well at my first semester of college
-Made some really wonderful close friends
-Grown, through joy and pain, closer to Christ.