On New Years Eve Day a strange thing happens. I open a drawer that I rarely look at, and in that forgotten drawer I come across an old mole skin journal. Opening the first page, I read my New Years resolutions from January of 2009. Strange that I would discover this on New Years Eve Day. Apparently I wrote these resolutions one year ago, but then stuck the journal in a drawer where it was lost and forgotten. Is this symbolic of what happens to most of the resolutions we make?
So that happened just a few days ago, and now I am traveling back from Lansing, all alone for two hours. Turn off the music, and turn off my thoughts from the meeting I just left. It’s time to think about what I want to accomplish over the next year. I want to “do hard things” as the Harris brothers would say. I want this to be a year to accomplish not just easy predictable things, but hard things, miraculous things, God sized things!
Lord, I want to do this prayerfully. What should I go after in the coming year? What would you have me resolve to do?
Two hours later I have traveled 135 miles in my car, and journeyed out a year ahead in my vision for 2010. One page of my mole skin journal is full.
Don't just stick it in a forgotten drawer this time! Let’s do hard things!
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Mon, January 4, 2010
by Chris Spitters