I've spent a lot of time thinking and praying about what my goal or focus for this next year should be. I feel like I've spent the past year, if not all of grad school, in survival mode. Pretty much everything I did was about getting from one day to the next, and my goals reflected the season of life I was in. I find myself now in a rather different situation. Matthew's got a permanent job with a very nice income, we're in a huge house that's not perpetually under construction, and there are no big changes in the foreseeable future. I am no longer just surviving. I am putting down roots and hoping to grow. With that in mind, I want to focus this year on living more deliberately.
Deliberate: Adjective. Done consciously and intentionally.
There are so many projects I've had floating around in the back of my mind that I have kept putting off because I haven't had the time or space or other resources. I've got nothing but time and space now, and I want to spend those and my other resources purposefully developing some of the talents I've let lay dormant. I want to be a more deliberate mother. I want to listen more intently when my children speak to me, and be more encouraging when they show interest in something. Instead of putting on a show for them so I can meet some deadline or keep them out of the way, I want to include them more in my daily activities. I want to teach them, through example and hands on experience, how to be industrious and Christ-like. I want to serve more deliberately, ideally not just among my friends, but in the community as well. To sum up, I want to consciously and intentionally decide to do things, and then do them.
As great as that all sounds, I don't know that it's a particularly measurable goal. So, in order to look back at the end of the year and see that I've actually accomplished something, I am setting a second, more tangible, goal. By 2016 I want to have at least six months of food storage. I'm obviously aiming for a year, but I'm going to start with a true six months of food and other household supplies.
My life is what I make it, and I want to make it great.
1 comment:
Hello,
I appreciate your comments about being intentional. It seems to me that most of us spend far more time reacting/responding to what happens to us rather than being intentional.
Even in those situations where we must respond, we often have more opportunity to be intentional than we realize.
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