I have decided against making any New Years resolutions this year. Usually I’m a big resolutions-setter (is that a word? It is now.) I love to set resolutions and then keep them in front of myself all year. I write things with words like “weight” and “work out” and “reading” and “cooking” and “time” and “church“.
But this year?
Nope.
No resolutions.
I have decided to strip it down. No more “lose that last baby-baby weight” or “read the Bible everyday”s. No more “be a mindful eater” or “pay off that line of credit” or “read 4 books a month”.
Those are all things I want to do. Need to do, to be truthful. Pesky things.
But instead, I’m going to choose one word for my year ahead.
And that word is: MOMENTS.
Seems like an odd choice, I know. It might make more sense to choose something like COURAGE (after all, I’m potty training) or CONSISTENCY or TRUST or GRACE. All good words. Very good.
But my word will be MOMENTS.
Because this year, I want to be present in all of the moments of my life.
I don’t want to be wishing away any of it. I want to be fully present in my life, living each moment. For me that connects to things like my health, my faith, my marriage, my children, my finances – all of it. Don’t go for the quick fix or the immediate gratification or the lure of the busy. Instead, I need to remember and live like this moment is all that I have. Because it may be.
Instead of wanting to be somewhere else or talking on the phone while making dinner while holding Joseph or spending money to make myself feel better or eating more cookies for lunch (not that I did that today *cough*), I will be about making the moments count. Each one.
Because those moments add up to my life.
I’m about to turn thirty. (ME! THIRTY! *faint*) And sometimes I still feel like I’m fifteen. Fifteen can feel alarmingly close to be at times. So it occurred to me last week that I”m as close now to 45 as I am to 15. So if the next 15 years go half as fast as the previous, I’ll be 45 before I know it.
2009 will be my year of MOMENTS. And making each of those moments count.
I got this idea from Ali Edwards.
