I don't know why, but I can't stand to make New Year's resolutions. It isn't because I don't like to be a better person or I don't like a good challenge. It isn't because I can't stand to fail if I don't keep them because I never take it seriously enough to worry about failing. I am a highly motivated person so you'd think that goals and time lines would excite and inspire me more. But, I think this Sunday at church I figured out what it is that prevents me from being motivated by them.
People often see New Year's as a time to start over or be better at something than they were the year before. I think that I really view each day and each moment as a chance to be better than I was the day before. When you really try to live into each day and surrender yourself letting God guide you and light the way, there isn't as much room for all the goals as there use to be. I don't know what to plan for when my life is in His hands...because He always keeps changing things around me. The only promises that seem for sure are that He love me, will provide for me and will be with me. The rest is really all about deciding each day to follow His plan and have faith that it is best for me.
The planner in me would love to check things off a list and move towards a more sizable goal each year but whatever He is shaping or molding in me depends on my willingness to let go of my goals anyway. He seems to make me more whole the more I submit to being more His. When I really surrender to Him, His grace allows me to live each day with more passion, more love and more kindness than the day before.
So, this year I won't feel guilty about my lack of resolutions. Instead, I am just going to surrender each day to the Savior and see where He takes me and believe that it the end, I will be thankful for the things He shows me and teaches me along the way.
(the picture has nothing to do with resolutions just a cute guy in a hat! Can't decide which edit I like better)
