2010

Ok so it is not an original title for this blog...but for me it works.

I have also been locked out of my blog until today so yes this is a bit late getting posted but none the less it is now posted.

I much the same of most of you can’t believe another year has gone by. It seems as though the first day of a new year is a day of reflection of the year just past. As I sit at my laptop today putting thoughts into words and I am intrigued by what 2010 can hold. The possibilities are endless!!

I have never been one for making New Years resolutions for several reasons but to me it just seems to be a useless idea. If you have to wait 365 days for a New Year to make a change in our lives was that change really that important or worth waiting for to begin with?

Then of course there is the idea of a clean slate. And seriously do we have to wait for a new year to get a clean slate; doesn’t Monday morning for all intensive purposes work the same way? All diets start Monday morning, all daily exercise programs start on a Monday, all the wonderful thoughts of not having a crazy hectic week start on a Monday but are only foiled later on during that week. Do we really need to wait for a new year or a Monday morning? What would happen if we just purposed that in the next moment whatever we need to change in our own lives or habits we just change? We don’t wait but we seize the moment for what it is and run to it with everything that we have.

I know for me this year I have things that must change! And I honestly can say I didn’t wait for the New Year to come so that I can begin those changes. For me at this moment in time it is a revelation of newness, a revelation of change that can and will only bring great things into my life!

When I awoke January 1, 2009 I didn’t know what my year would like. I had no idea of the valleys, turns and mountaintops I would be on or in. At times I felt like I was on a road that only had switchbacks, you know the ones so sharp that you need to look out your side window of the car as your windshield is not quite pointed in the right direction yet. Many times I found myself at a fork in the road with of course one road looking much more appealing then the other and yet knowing it was the less attractive road that I needed to be on. God has blessed me immensely in 2009 by taking the less traveled road.

I am excited to see what 2010 holds. I know I have a new baby niece on the way in April and I can't wait to meet her!! I am open to opportunities for God to use me in ways of leading worship in my home church and outside my home church. I am open to God growing me into the person he has created.

So will your 2010 look the same as your 2009? Will there be significant changes in your life? Will you take the less traveled road and be wonderfully blessed?