My thoughts on New Year's Resolutions

The gym is currently packed with the people who have recently committed that this new year they are going to work out…I'm not there.  Yet, my parents get a little frustrated every year as a new batch of hopefuls step inside the gym in January.  The sad thing is that the gym is a lot more crowded in January than in other months of the year.  As the year progresses, the hopefuls disappear and the frequent flyers are still chugging a way.  

This is an example of how New Year's Resolutions often are just a goal that never gets completed.  

Let's be honest.  A Year, while very definitive, is also very long.  It's a daunting task.  

Hmm….let me think of all that happened in a year.  I finished two semesters of college, a total of 37 hours.  I performed in Spring Sing with my sorority.  I traveled to Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Costa Rica.  I was on a Pine Cove Camp in the City team and we brought camp to 6 different churches.  I helped out at 2 DNOWs, went to Passion Conference, and helped out at a church camp.  I performed at the Music Business Showcase.  I read a spoken word at an event called Inspired Poet for my sorority.  My sorority also rushed and welcomed 30+ new girls into our sorority.  

A lot of things happened in 2014, and I'm a different girl because of it.  

In 2014, I set out to read 10 non-fiction books.  I read 4.  After my crazy summer, to be quite honest I forgot.  

This year I grew up a lot, laughed a lot, cried a lot.  I loved a lot, and focused on my self a lot.  I turned to God a lot, and I failed to turn to God a lot.  I look back and I have regrets and on other days I have none.  Some days I succeeded and some days I failed.  

So, this new year.  I'm not going to make a New Year's resolution, because I don't want to buy a gym membership that goes to waste.  Instead, I'm going to wake up each day and choose to live that day for God.  What does that look like?  Well, it should look like me going to the gym…lol.  

I'm going to make goals don't get me wrong, but I want to take my goals one day at a time. 

Our mercies are new every morning.  I want to wake up and choose to love more, laugh more and seek God more every day.  

It's a new day…what will you choose??