As I ponder this year I read blogs from ladies across the sea, sitting by fireplaces and listening to the gentle rhythm of falling snow. It seems right to plan a year where it is cooler and the brain can process serious matters. Here it is a blister of a day... the rains that fell on the first of January seem like a faint reverie. It's plain difficult to write a coherent line let alone write up a whole vision for the year.
I turn to the source of comfort and direction...
"You crown the year with Your goodness and Your paths drip with abundance" Psalm 65.11
"live a life worthy of the Lord" Col 1.9
Begin I must, early in the morning... just before sunrise, when the mind is clear and the coffee is strong. It sounds noble to have life purpose or write up a vision, but without the pursuit of it... and a daily plan with a dosage of His grace and strength LIFE will drag you along with its dominant unrelenting current of work, food, clothes, television etc. While this is in itself not bad, it must not consume us. We won't wake up godly women one day just by wishing. Oh baby, if only.
This plan, whatever it may mean for you, whether its more quiet time, bible reading, having supper together as a family... it won't be perfect. Mercy! But it can be built upon bit by bit. Let's resolve to do something different this year... maybe swim a bit against the current and enjoy it to boot! It will build strong muscles and these muscles could help us carry others... one of the first scriptures I read this year was "whoever drinks of the water that I give him will never thirst again. But the water that I give him will become in him a fountain of water" John 4.13
May you have a definite spring in your step this year, A fresh wind under your wings.
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