My New Year

Yesterday I referred to my New Years Resolution. It's pretty vague, but in my heart I know what it means:

I am taking my life back.

I'm taking my life back in the ways that I know are right and true. My priorities are, and will be shown as being:

1. God
2. Rick
3. My children
4. My home
5. Myself
6. Others

I will no longer live in fear. I will not live in fear of rejection or of disappointing others. I will go at my priorities with full gusto, despite what anyone else thinks.

I plan to build relationships with the friends I spoke of yesterday. They will become a regular part of my life. I realize that I need friendship and support and love from those who are walking a similar path as myself. As much as I love my web friends, and you are so dear to me, I have found that occasionally I need a physical hug.

People and situations are no longer going to get me down. I have done much better on this front this past year, but there is still room for improvement. God has work to do in each of us, and I will try to remember that each time I feel hurt or angered by someone. Their "thing(s)" might just be showing, and it's God's job to bring it to their attention and try to fix it, not mine. I will just concentrate on reacting the way God would want me to in the midst of my own "thing(s)".

So how's all of that for a resolution that can't be measured? I'll know, over time, if I have succeeded. It will likely be displayed in the people around me.

Do you have a New Years Resolution?