Resolutions

A wise friend once told me he doesn't use the New Year to make resolutions for himself like most people do.  Instead, he prefers to use his birthday as the day to focus on the positive changes he wants to make in his life.  It's the time of your own "New Year", is the way he looked at it.  And this year for some reason the Lord brought this conversation to my remembrance and the idea resonated within me.  I hadn't thought about his words in years, but this year on my 51st birthday they came back to me.  

Recently, I was thinking about the new direction God wanted me to focus on for the upcoming New Year.  Every year the Lord gives me specific areas He wants to work on in my life.  Last year was the quality of mercy.  (Still working on it !!!)  And this year I could feel the Lord impressing on me His desire for me to be consistent.  And this was to start on Dec. 5, my birthday, not Jan. 1 the celebrated New Year.  

So here I go.  Off on another quest for growth.  Another voyage of evolution and hopefully maturation so that when I look in the mirror at the end of my 51st year I will see more of Jesus looking back at me.  

Lord, thank You for the work You continually desire to do in us.  Thank You that You never stop helping us grow and change.  Please do the work in me that You desire.  Help me to let go of the things that hinder and reach for the things that will make me soar!!