Well here we are again... Literally and then again, in context of it being the new year-- what?!
A lot has happened in the past year, too many things to really fully recount, but I will share this brief review: 2017 was a rough year for me. I lost myself a lot. 2018 was reclaiming me, I grew in my relationship with God and I started to THRIVE! I started to dream again-- literally. I haven't had dreams that I remembered in a long time and for the first time in a while I was dreaming again. I dreamed for my future in ways that I thought were funny-- for instance, I am dreaming about love and not just this fleeting love, but this real in depth love. That while watching dads with their children, I would tear up a little bit, because there is something in my future that I am believing of getting the chance to see that type of bond with humans that I love. I envisioned what building a future looked like, not just this passing thought, but really starting to think about the choices I am making and whether or not that will sustain not only me, but the versions of me that I am still growing into, and the legacy that I am believing for to come after.
You see, I ended 2017 on a lower note and somewhere in the midst of the start of 2018 the Lord restored my joy. I can look back on 2018 and know, I am still not this rich (monetary wealth person), I am still trying to figure out finances and budgets and all that stuff out, but I found richness in caring for others, in serving and in growing.
So as I look to 2019 I wanted to take a moment to not provide resolutions, but rather intentions. I have yet to have a year where a resolution has stuck, so I resolve to no longer hold resolutions but to really focus on this year in the way that I go into most years--- Intentionally.
There is no real order to these intentions and I am still unpacking them. I have to figure out the rhythm to allow the last month of the year to be my preparation period for the new year. I see people I follow in Social Media and they have words for their year or scriptures for their year already and here I am just taking it day by day, step by step trying to just make sense of some things here and there.
So here it goes, my intentions for 2019:
- Grow with and In God
- Complete Financial Peace Baby Step 1- Save $1,000 in Emergency Fund (by June 30th 2019)
- Begin Financial Peace Baby Step 2- Debt Snowball (begin July 1)
- New job
- Read 12 books this year (thankful for a friend's book club to give me that stretching)
- Blog More
- Continue to dream
- Create a vision board (by January 31, 2019)
- Lose 20 lbs
- Build a more solid foundation in my health
There are two scriptures that came to me, so maybe I DO have a scripture for my year, ha ha, that I want to hold on to this year:
- Deuteronomy 1:11 The Lord God of your fathers make you a a thousand times so many more are ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised you!
- Psalms 65:11 You crown the year with Your goodness, and Your paths drip with abundance
I guess in thinking about these two scriptures my word for 2019 is THRIVE. God calls us to THRIVE, to not just live a life that is saved, but to live a life that is CALLED. One that is purposed, one that gives Him the Glory. And His promises remain true, I will live a life where my paths drip with abundance.
Here is to what I pray will continue to be a flourishing year in spirit, mind, body. Through health and wealth. To continue to be generous and to break those bonds that hold me back from living the BEST life that God has for me.
See you soon!
