Intentional Resolutions

Welcome to a new year! I'm not the kind of person that makes a lot of new year's resolutions. In fact, my last resolution was to make no more. ;) Still, the beginning of a year is a good time for me to look back, cry over all my mistakes, and take stock of how to grow spiritually and improve my walk with God.

There are a few intentions I am working towards this year. The most important of these is my desire to attend carefully to the leading of the Holy Spirit. If I'm talking and suddenly sense that for some reason my words are not God-honoring, I want to immediately obey by shutting my mouth. I want to be as easily moved by God as a feather in the wind, yet remain steadfast against any other impetus.

Secondly, I want to be as easy to please as a small child, delighting in the tiniest joy that showers from God's hands. This will carry me through when my desires and hopes seem to pass unseen and my life appears as barren as rain on a lonely grey cliff.

I've got other pseudo-resolutions budding in my soul, but that's all I've got time for right now.

May I ask, what are your aims for this year. How do you plan to get there?