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Ready or not, 2010 is here. I never finalized the geese's nesting area, nor finished the painting for the living room, nor finished prepping the garden for winter, but that's okay! Maybe I'm actually growing up, but it's bothering me less and less for jobs to be left undone. I set goals to help me accomplish things, and it does help me tremendously! I still hope to finish these things (and soon!) but (as always) I've already compiled a new list of projects I want to tackle for this year.Yes, that noise you're hearing is Bobby's exasperated sigh that I'm already planning MORE projects before I finish the ones I have.

Pastor Mike's challenge a few weeks ago really made me stop and think about my priorities. One thing I started last year was trying to read a book a month. I'm going to push myself out of my comfort zone this year and try to read at least 3 Christian related non-fiction books (this doesn't include biographies). I really dislike non-fiction. I did read 3/4 of
Because He Loves Me by Elyse Fitzpatrick and hope to finish it this year, but have decided for this decision to have any real teeth I can't include it in this year's list. Uughh. (and the same goes for the parenting book from 2 years ago...sigh)
And along with that, I want to re-invigorate my devotions. I know our church is reading through a 3 year study, but I'm having a very hard time getting motivated with it. I have a small Bible study that I plan to start off with, then hope to move to the Chronological Bible I bought last year. Those are my spiritual goals.
There's a few personal goals I want to tackle, but I'm also trying to be realistic with how much I can accomplish in 12 very short months (only 364 days!), so I'm not going to post those for now.
It seems strange to say I'm excited about a New Year when to me the New Year always seems like a continuation of the next one. I am very thankful not to be Chinese and have the superstition that your house must be clean top to bottom so you don't carry any bad dirt from one year to the next. That would have pushed me past my limits this year with all the traveling and family visits from the last 2 weeks.

2010- Upward and onward!

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Jennifer said…
love the new look
Monica said…
thanks...I spent forever trying to get the type formatted correctly; the lower paragraphs got so small they were unreadable. I finally gave up. It drives me crazy that it's not correct, but it'll have to do for now.

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