Kettle Club :: Resolve - Let the Son Shine

Kettle Club :: Resolve 01/26/2010

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I've never been too into making resolutions...call me a rebel. Okay, call me lazy, that's pretty much the real reason I can't think of a single New Year's resolution I've kept. I have never taken them seriously enough to even be able to name one I've made. We'll guess they were the usual suspects...read more, move more, weigh less...all great goals if you need 'em. Truly great goals if you plan to keep after them. I suppose I just know myself well enough to know that I'd never really try.

As 2009 came to a close, I found myself wanting to join in the resolution fun. Naturally, I didn't have to look far to find some...read more, move more, weigh less, study more, pray more, write more, homeschool better, clean more, cook more, order out less, more patience, less wasted time...the list didn't stop. Then I remembered why it was I had given up on resolutions. They bum me out and I let myself down.

I was content to go into the new year with all those same goals that filled 2009, keeping me in jammies on those days I felt defeated beneath the ever-growing list.

I was content. God, however, had a plan for my new year.

Go figure.

God began to whisper to me that I didn't need to make a list, I needed to make a commitment. I needed resolve.

Over the past several weeks, I've been seeing that when I resolve to do a thing, it gets done. Right away. I see said task, I acknowledge that it isn't going anywhere on its own, and I handle it. Resolutions just didn't have that effect on me, I think they seemed like something I had 365 days to work on and I'd get to them eventually. Simply deciding to do what needs doing each time it arises has somehow set me free. Bit by bit, I'm finding it easier to deal with the task at hand instead of putting it off until it becomes an obstacle.

Could it be that my procrastinating days are over? Probably not. They are numbered, though, and that's something I'm thrilled about in this new year!

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