New Year's Day 2006
January 1, 2006 -- a new year, a new beginning. I love New Year's Day. I love the thought of starting anew. I love the thought of a clean slate. I love thinking that the failures and faults of the past year are wiped clean and that I have a new opportunity to live as I desire to live, love as I am loved, and fulfill the roles and callings that He has placed on my life (husband, father, son, leader, subordinate, attorney, shepherd, friend, and neighbor). I realize that in reality there is nothing magical about January 1st; life goes on as it always does. Yet, psychologically, it does mean to me a new start, and as any baseball fan will tell you, a new start, a new season, means that the hopeful possibilities are limitless. I love that.
So, what are my hopes and prayers for 2006? I am praying that 2006 is a year of courage, purity, integrity, and determination for me. In listing these things as my prayers for 2006, I am implicitly acknowledging that these have been areas of shortcomings and outright failure in the past. Yet, I can no longer worry about the past, but only look to the future and set my course. So, my eyes are fixed on courage, to do the right thing, even when it hurts, and to enter into new and uncertain situations with the confidence that God is with me. Purity, in thought, action, and word; to live as if there are no secrets. Integrity, to mean what I say and say what I mean, and to give my utmost for His highest in everything I do. Determination, to see to the finish anything I undertake, whether it be in ministry, law, business, or even reading books. I want to be a good finisher.
Finally, I want more intimacy with Jesus, my wife, my kids, my family, and my friends this year. Intimate relationships are where true life is found. To that end, I desire to risk it more in relationships, to be more transparent, and to be more intentional about spending time with those closest to me. What else is there?
So what about you? What is your desire for 2006?
So, what are my hopes and prayers for 2006? I am praying that 2006 is a year of courage, purity, integrity, and determination for me. In listing these things as my prayers for 2006, I am implicitly acknowledging that these have been areas of shortcomings and outright failure in the past. Yet, I can no longer worry about the past, but only look to the future and set my course. So, my eyes are fixed on courage, to do the right thing, even when it hurts, and to enter into new and uncertain situations with the confidence that God is with me. Purity, in thought, action, and word; to live as if there are no secrets. Integrity, to mean what I say and say what I mean, and to give my utmost for His highest in everything I do. Determination, to see to the finish anything I undertake, whether it be in ministry, law, business, or even reading books. I want to be a good finisher.
Finally, I want more intimacy with Jesus, my wife, my kids, my family, and my friends this year. Intimate relationships are where true life is found. To that end, I desire to risk it more in relationships, to be more transparent, and to be more intentional about spending time with those closest to me. What else is there?
So what about you? What is your desire for 2006?
posted by Lane | 8:18 AM
1 Comments:
Lane - keep the interesting thoughts running through your head coming ...
To your New Year's message: I too feel (more and moreso) the desire to spend my precious time with the people that mean the most to me. We are so lucky to have the option of who and how we want to spend our time ...
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