Resolution not to resolve

Before I get into my post this week, I’d like to take a minute and briefly introduce myself since I’m new here at Finding Beauty!  My name is Jaynessa, I have been married for 10 and a half wonderful years, and I have 3 handsome boys ages 9,8,and 3.  I have been a Christian for 16 years, and it was finding Christ that brought me through a difficult time in my life, and I’m certain that was no accident.  My husband and I homeschool our children and we are learning to live a healthier lifestyle, some would call us “crunchy”, but I just say we are learning to live the way God intended.  Ok, enough about me, on to the real reason you are here!

With each New Year that passes, we resolve to do something different or better, or to eliminate something.  Do we ever really and truly keep those resolutions, or are they just a tagline?  Do we mean what we say or do we do it to be “like everyone else”?  Is there purpose and resolve behind it?

As Christians does not God tell us to be set apart from others, are we not commanded to live differently, and should we not live each and every day with purpose and resolution?  Admittedly, I am guilty of the same thing, each year I make a resolution to do this or that and work diligently toward it for 2 or 3 or 4 months, but by late spring each year my resolve has fallen by the wayside.  Oh sure sometimes the resolution stays all year, but with not nearly as much umph as I started, and not as much passion and drive to complete it.

This year I’m not making a yearly resolution, instead I am going to work on something each month, so by the end of the year I have accomplished some true growing in many areas, not just one!  If I haven’t made much growth or progress in an area then I will continue it the following month along with a new goal for that month, and who knows maybe by the end of 2013 I will have grown and developed in a more meaningful way than simply eating healthier, or losing weight.

So I’m starting with something basic this month, I am going to get my schedule organized so I can see where my time is going and keeping a log of what I do and when so I can see where my time wasters are and why certain tasks aren’t being done.  If our time is not organized and accounted for it becomes very easy to waste it, and I am guilty of that, I need to view my time as something more valuable so that is my goal!

My hope and prayer is that by the end of the year my life will bring more glory to God and be more pleasing to Him!  He is after all the Great Creator and has created me to bring glory to Him and be a light unto His kingdom, I need to honor that and stop squandering the gifts he has given me!  A yearly resolution is just not going to do that for me, and I’m only lying to myself and those I care about if I say otherwise.  So in an attempt to live with purpose and to keep the resolution I give myself I will be doing things differently this year and I don’t care if I “fit in” with everyone else!

I would love to hear from you, feel free to leave a comment with tips, ideas, thoughts, or encouragement, all of your comments are read and appreciated!