Happy New Year everyone...I hope everyone's 2009 has started out well!! I know a lot of people have made some New Year's Resolutions and many people have asked if I made any. Well, I really have never made any because I know how "non-committed" I am to these things. So basically I figure...what's the use?!?! But on our long drive home to Nashville from Ridgecrest, Jared (our philosophical friend), posed a question to Leslie, Susan and me about where we would like to see ourselves this time next year? I was really impressed with my friend's responses. I have watched them grow into amazing godly people and it was very encouraging to see their faith and to see their desire for their life. It wasn't superficial things like...lose weight, have more money, or become a better dresser (even though we know Jared was thinking this). Their responses were things that will have an eternal affect on their life and others around them. The question then came to me and I really wasn't sure what I wanted to say. Needless to say this was my response: to be stable for a year, to continue walking with passion and strength in the direction God has placed me on, and to prayfully explore some desires God has placed on my heart. I really feel like the past 2 years, and especially the past 6 months, have been leading me up to this "new year"...to new dreams, new hopes, and even new fears (if that makes sense at all). I can't wait to see what God has in store for me in 2009. If I've learned one thing over the past crazy two years of my life it is that God is faithful; faithful beyond my finite understanding.
With all of this said...I have one more resolution I would like to make. I know I know it's a little late, but I was inspired yesterday. So on my way to Chick-fil-a last night to hang out with some friends, I was sitting at a red light (a forever long red light) and a song came on that I hadn't heard in forever. Like always...I was singing my sweet little heart out (very passionately I might say) and dancing (like always) and the chorus...well, I'll let you decide. So my friends...I leave you with this:
With all of this said...I have one more resolution I would like to make. I know I know it's a little late, but I was inspired yesterday. So on my way to Chick-fil-a last night to hang out with some friends, I was sitting at a red light (a forever long red light) and a song came on that I hadn't heard in forever. Like always...I was singing my sweet little heart out (very passionately I might say) and dancing (like always) and the chorus...well, I'll let you decide. So my friends...I leave you with this:
I ain't settling for just getting by
I've had enough so so for the rest of my life
Tired of shooting to low, so raise the bar high
Just enough ain't enough this time
I ain't settling for anything less than everything, yeah
Thank you Jennifer Nettles...Thank. You.
