7 for 07

I guess it is that time of year again. With 2007 here I thought that I might suggest seven resolutions. In the year 2007 I resolve:

1. To love God … to know His will … to meditate on Him and His word … to yield to and not quench the Holy Spirit … to be pleasing to Him.
2. To love people … to genuinely care … to listen more and speak less … to love my wife … to love my kids and grandkids … to love Christ’s body … to love those who hurt.
3. To be me … to live from my guts and not brain … to have the courage to live from my heart … to not let our culture or other people define who I am.
4. To be generous … to be a compassionate giver … to be a good steward of everything that God has blessed me with … to be content.
5. To stretch … to leave my comfort zone … to do things that make me feel uneasy … to be around people who are not like me.
6. To take care of myself … to exercise and eat healthier … to rest … to have boundaries … to live life and not manage it.
7. To trust the Lord in me ... to believe in the ideas that God has put in me ... to be courageous and to go places I have never gone before.

In a sense these are prayer requests as I am incapable of bringing them to pass. I’d be interested in knowing what, if anything, you have resolved for this New Year. In either case have a blessed and joyous 2007.