This year, I haven’t made any new year’s resolutions because they are trite and too simple to break. I love the idea of resolving to do something differently but perhaps this time of year, when it is taken as given that you make these promises to yourself, means that there isn’t the personal impetus to make things happen.
However, that said, I said I would be learning to open my heart more to God and looking for ways to do that.
One of them is writing my journal. 2006 was a year of preparation, distraction for a life-altering event. Marriage. I started my diary and devotions well last January but tailed off mid spring-summer…. to recommence in October, half heartedly and exhausted. I wrote sporadically and only on days when I could summon enough energy to hold a pen before falling asleep, face on the page. The entries then were fairly superficial and particularly mind-numbing.
This year 2007 is going to be a year to mature in faith, wisdom, experience. I am now doing very ‘grown up’ things (even for a 25 year old!) planning for the future. My commitment, then, is that writing my journal – one of my favourite ways to spend devotional time – must take on a new degree of honesty to God and to myself. Honesty and depth. Not just to be a record of the days comings and goings, what my diary had become but to be more of an open book to God, a sign of commitment to him.
No excuses.
So I’ve told you now, can’t get out of it ‘cos you’re bound to hold me accountable……!
