A New Year’s Resolution?
Resolutions are a weird thing to me. I’m not sure if they are ‘biblical’. And yet I presently find myself strangely pulled to make some life changes concerning diet and certain habits and well….diet. It’s that whole end of the year, beginning of the new thing that seems to happen every year.
Have you had success with resolutions? If so, would you share it with us?
g
P.S. Sorry for the blog drought. I hereby resolve…..
Posted by Greg Fadness on December 29, 2008
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Cant remember one that really stuck very long but if it is healthy for your christian life style then by all means, resolution away.
I started a diet and exercise program on the firt of december. Not easy to follow through the holidays. Not a crash diet or anything but healthy foods, liquid vitamins and minerals, no food after 7:00 at night and moderate work outs. I am down about 8 lbs. I guess I will make it a new years resolution.
I won’t profit alot but a little.
I can probably think of much better resolutions.
This web site seemed to have good insight and accuracy about a christian new years.
http://www.gotquestions.org/new-years-resolution.html
Seems that I feel so sluggish after the holidays each and every year, no wonder when you see all the food I eat, hee hee! So I don’t make formal resolutions but I always seem to feel like starting fresh with my healthy eating. Good for you, Keith, on eating healthy and seeing success! I am just trying to make sure we have purged our home of all the whites- white flour, white sugar, white rice, etc… I tend to enjoy baking a little too much at this time of year and end up with all sorts of things I normally wouldn’t allow through the year. So back I go to the whole foods, spelt flour, raw local honey, and so on and so on… I also need to get moving again with some sort of exercise. For the first time in my life (because I used to have asthma), I started running in 2008. I’m a wimp though, and cold weather caused me to slack. So possibly I may find myself running again in the spring. But I can’t wait till spring to exercise, so I will be starting something soon…
You are right, Keith, don’t do the crash diet or fads, just learning to eat healthy foods that nourish your body will really cause you to loose weight. And getting the vitamins and minerals and whatever else your body may be lacking, certainly helps. Ok, I’m taking off my natural health consultant cap- sorry!
Spiritually, I would love to take the memorization thing and run with it (thank you, Lighthouse, for the motivation!) I also have been trying to get back to a regular routine of studying the Word more deeply, journaling prayers, and that sort of thing. It is so easy to get out of the habit and though it’s not a resolution for the new year, it is something I’ve been trying to incorporate.
It seems I’m always finding new things through the year to change up in some way, so I suppose I could post on this regularly throughout the year. ;)
Happy new year to ya’ll!
c
i like the idea of starting over as much as possible. because im so good at screwing up. my new years res is going to be work harder. i think God is honered by hard work. talk less. listen more and demonstrate. as much of Gods love to all i know as much as possible.
Thanks for agreeing Christa. Lots of b vitamins does the trick for energy for me. I drink Vibe vitamins in orange juice every day. Dicks pharmacy by the hospital has it, kinda spendy but theeeeeeeeeyy’re great !!
Pumba, it would be a sin for you to talk less ! !
And i mean that as the upmost of compliments.
aaaand working all the time, isnt all that great, trust me on this one. Almost more like a curse for me rather than a blessing. A vicious cycle for an attempt at a richer life style. I find myself envying people who dont have to work as much.
I seem to have been blessed and/or cursed with a natural solution to holiday weight gain; the flu. It hit the day after Christmas while with my in-laws at their cabin in the Cascade Mountains of Washington. Dreaming was the closest thing I got to exercise. At any rate, I certainly wouldn’t recommend it long term for anyone. (Jenny, another story to add to my book.)
I have never been much of a New Year’s resolution type of person. It always seemed kind of hokey to me. I do know there has to be a point of beginning once a decision to make a change has been made. In all humility, I try to be sensitive to the Lord leading me to change, not when the rest of the world says it’s time. For instance, last May, I felt the Lord wanted me to be more active and at the same time help our family save gas money. So I bought a bike and rode to my job throughout the summer. Now I’ve traded to spinning, which I absolutely love.
Hhhhhmmmmmm…. Truth is… I have resolutions monthly on taking better care of myself physically. What has really been on my heart lately is taking more initiative to make healthier spiritual decisions. I guess at the forefront of my thinking is to spend time wisely and not waste it away on excessive JUNK….
Something else that has been dawning in my heart over a long period of time is how I study God’s word. God has provided for me this wonderful interactive platform by which I can meet with Him, hear His voice and actually take in to myself, as much or as little of His character as I am willing when ever and wherever I want. Yet, sadly, we seem to sniff around a little, maybe take a nibble or two and then go on our way. Interestingly I have found over the years, the more I actually get into the word and allow the word into me…. the more I want. While I may have bible study in a proper place, the idea of scripture memorization has intrigued me. I am “defective’ in the area of memorization. I still haven’t memorized my times tables. I have been able to memorize very little in my lifetime and it has been limiting to me in many ways. This year I want to memorize scripture.
Not just as a challenge or to conquer a lifelong problem, but seriously, because I don’t know that I will always have a bible available at arms length. I want to be able to hide Gods word in my heart and draw upon it to bring comfort, peace and instruction in the days to come.
Hey Keith, I love my B vits, among other things. I had almost zero thyroid function a couple years ago and I am here to tell ya, it’s nice having that functioning again so IIIII can function. But the B’s also help me with my energy. Course, I buy my vits from myself… but that’s another topic… Glad you are making new healthy choices… There is a lot of wisdom in your post about work and health.
I was thinking about this post this AM and remembered that the bible does tell us to have vision. I think that you can make resolutions at any time, so that you can have that vision in front of you. It just seems like the new year is the common time people try to do it. The difference is -striving. If I am striving because it’s the new year and I have to do something different, then it’s something put upon me and I don’t stick with it. If it’s something I’ve prayed about and the Lord has given me a vision to move in a direction, then it’s the Lord’s idea and I will be more likely to follow it. But like Clay said, new starts are good any time of year because I am so gifted at messing up… So striving gets tossed aside and prayer is the place to live…
Oh Susan, I love your post, and I love the idea of your time… I agree, I read about the proverbs 31 woman and boy do I want to be her. I want my hands to be busy and not to be idle. But I don’t want to just be busy with well, busy work. I want to be spending my time wisely and doing what is meaningful. Primarily for my family. I feel like I slack in a lot of ways that I know I could do better. I’m not wallowing in self pity here, just the Lord is showing me things I could do better. Good point, Susan!!
Wow Deana, sorry about your flu, are you still ill or getting better? Praying for you either way… And congrats on spinning, that’s wonderful!
There are more overweight people in America than average-weight people. So overweight people are now average… which means, you have met your New Year’s resolution.
I for one am shooting for a skinny goal then, With 18″ guns of course.
Christa, I just looked at your web site, alot of healthy stuff there. I didnt realise you sold vitamins also. Very cool.
Oh yeah, I have it all, Keith ;). Toothpaste to herbs to essential oils, you name it… I love your skinny goal, tee hee! I am not aiming quite that high…
And Brandon, I love your reasoning!
did anybody work today. keith thanx for words of encouragement. but with the gift of gab comes great responsability. i bring happiness to all some by comming and others by leaving.
i agree with the post about being heavy it is my conclosion about the battle of the buldge. i cant seem to be skinny so i’m on a mission to make everybody fat like me.
PROVERBS 15:15 STATES FOR THOSE WHO ARE MERRY AT HEART SHALL HAVE A CONTINUEL FEAST! ! ! SO EAT UP CHRISTIANS ARRR! ARRRG! ROO! RROOO! YUMMM! YUMMM!
sorry got carried away there.
carry on!
Clay:
I love what you bring to the blog. You make me smile inside…
Lord Bless You
Resolve
Another year, another day
Another passing moment
In each I see a gift
To be ready
To be willing
To make a resolution
I resolve
I resolve to try to be more like Christ
This year more than last
Today more than yesterday
I resolve to walk more in the Spirit
And less in the flesh
I resolve to turn away from condemnation
As there is none in Christ
I resolve to honor my Maker
By saying less and doing more
I resolve to give more grace
Even if its just a small fraction of the grace given me
I resolve to not live in fear
Nor be driven by it
As there is no fear in love
And Christ is not the author of it
I resolve to draw closer to God
And thereby closer to my family
My friends
My fellowship
I resolve to be a better man
A better father
A better husband
By being meek, broken and contrite before God
I resolve to love my God
More today than yesterday
More this year than last
aaaaammmmeeeennn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
man im going to copy that and keep it in my wallet
i mean it that was awesome
ya know ijust got off the phone with my wife and she really needed to here some words of encouragement. with out going to much in to it i know that when i’m with my wife and evan not that stupid jerk satan is picking on her and evan trying to distroy her if i could get my hands …..
well i guess i have to let the lord do that but she needed to here how much God loves her and i love her. i’ve been married for 10 years now and i love her more now than ever. she appoligized for needing to here that. i shared with her that i also need to her that very, very often.
i just felt led to share this because i’m sure that we are not the only one christians that need this. and i neede to get that off my chest thanx for letting me vent
p.s. thanx susan also needed from friends as well! i’m also waiting for you to show up at a code javas.
did i say code java hmmm!!!
Clay you are funny about that java… I just had my home made mocha this AM, it was soooo good. ;) And being transparent and saying that you need some prayer and uplifting words is a good thing. Is she a reader? Or maybe if not look at books on CD. But the book Captivating did so much for me to help me understand how God views me and loves me. I think guys should read it too so they can understand how God wired us ladies… ;) Just a thought. In the mean time, we’re praying. :) Oh and Clay, get back to work! ;)
Linn, great post!
Happy New Year all!!!
I’ll be at Java again soon. Family here, sick, Christmas… yada-yada. Does anyone remember what normal feels like?
i think normal is what we wanted it to be like in the first place and it was all in our minds. at last it never was. such as life. but we keep striving towards the mark hopefully with a good attitude. speaking of attitude if you take all the letters in attitude and use the numbers that they fall into in the allpybet the numbers add up to 100. so our attitude should be 100% good hee hee. i have about 99% to go lol.
but normal is a myth
lots of love
clay dogg the soon to be christian hunter!!!
christa my most long wounderfull friend i’m off to day. and guess what morning mana did not happen today and i didn’t get the memo. my heart was crushed what a way to end the year. my life story. i’ve had dreams about everybody beeing raptured and there i was looking up going okay God this isn’t funny get me off this rock and then woosh there i am feeling dissed. true story!!! oh well poor big me! i talk to much gota go
thanks for praying 4 me and the misses. God bless
and iwish you were doing the skit with me tonight its going to rock.
keith
you dont seem to be as hooked on this as much as you used to be. just miss you
i’ll see ya next year
got busy. doing a remodel at my dentists office.
and dealing with a few things.
i still love the web logs.
[ HAPPY NEW YEARS EVERYBODY ] ! ! !
Ok, sad snapshot of my life, it’s 8 till midnight and I’m online LOL!! Happy new year everyone! And Clay, I wondered if it was your day off- seemed like you often get Wednesdays off. Sorry you didn’t get the memo. I had my own morning mana and mocha at my house, just me myself and I. It was nice… Getting a little too hooked on the coffee again though, not good…
God bless ya’ll in the new year!
c
Happy New Year!!!
well christa, keith, and everybody else at home it was a great night at the home c lots and lots of good food, great friends, and short jokes by keven n. missed u guys a whole bunch. i learned how to play pinochle (man thats not how i would spell that word) who ever made up the way we spell was on drugs.
any way it was a great time. i think we should get together at least once or twice a month. or more heck lets just get this stupid world over with and go home!!! party all the time no calories in heaven. woo hoo!
well iguess its about java time for me and the misses so party on see ya sunday at home c
peace out pumba
oh christa, keith, morning mana monday 0800 hundred hours. mandie and wayne you be there too. jehovah and java how can you miss it.
pumba
oh hey i was the first to blog in 2009
im special
to bad it wasn’t insparational
oops susan beat me
goll darn it!!!
Im back! Hey gang! I’ve been down for the past 3 weeks. I had to have a kidney stone surgery and am now on the recovery side of things. Wheeew what a month!
Susan, let me know if you discover normalcy???
I have some new years resolutions!!!
1. I resolve to not allow any idols to creep into my life.
2. I resolve to do my best to receive the chastening of the Holy Spirit the first time He calls me to accountability.
3. I resolve to try my best to seek comfort, affirmation and provision from the Lord first, instead of relying on myself or others.
4. I resolve to love and appreciate my wife in a new and fresh way that that accentuates the true beauty and servant that she is.
5. I resolve to love others and be compassionate with not only words but actions.
Lord Jesus, I ask for your strength to help me accomplish these in 09, and pray for this blog family, bless them and keep them in your love and grace. AMEN I love you all. Brian
Hey Brian,
You set your goals pretty high brother.
Wanted to let you know that my uncle Dick Hyatt is in the mercy hospital in redding where you live.
He just had a large cancer removed from his stomach yesterday and is not going to live much longer. Dont believe he is a christian.
Hey Clay, mi amigo,
Monday soOOouunds grrREAT ! ! !
At the church right ?
right se u there, and c u sunday.
Working on doctors office sunday. oxe in ditch.
doctor is overloaded with patients next week.
oooooppss is today monday missed morn mana well i guess ill go to morrow sorry keith. might bee i’ll see you there
It was great. all the good ole boys were there.
traveled through wind and snow up and down rugged terrain on foot in snow shoes just to get there.
did i say it was up hill.
ahemmmmmmm…….. BBbbbbaaaaaaaa hhaaaaaa
bored susan?
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It was a subtle hint for Pastor Greg….I shoulda said Whaa whaa or Fender or something, I guess….
We need a new blog topic. i have been surfing aroung the lighthouse site. alot of stuff in here.
Susan you crack me up!
That concert was a ball last night, I can’t wait to see where it goes from there! Thanks to all who made it happen!!
i know this should be on a diff blog but have you seen the movie eagle eye. i heard the critics bommed it but i guess they didn’t get it or maybe its to close to the truth of whats going on in our country..
kind of makes you want to be amish. oh well i guess ill sell my stuff shave my head and become a monk. than God for blogs they will help me when i have to be silent. i gotta go im feeling all depressed.
oh speaking of depressed were having a two for the price of one sell at canyon view. come on in and bring a friend. dont worry i wont tell any one. lol ask for Clay the head nut.
Mr pumba
Your part commedian clay, you always make me laugh. It is something very special you have that you cant buy or sell two for one.
I did see eagle eye. Dusty stays on top of the new releases at hollywierd video, every tuesday. I just wish they wouldnt cuss so much, i have kids in the house. Eagle eye was a pretty good movie over all i thought. i also saw babylon ad and there was definatly to much cussing in it although they told him not to cuss in the movie. a wierd scientific aproach to joseph and the virgin mary in my opinion. a different flick for sure. vin diesel is kind of the joseph. vin diesel always puts on a good show.
lighthousecf.com has a free classified section under ministies called sheep to sheep. looks pretty cool.
oops, its lighthousecf.org of course. im to used to clicking on favorites for the site.
Paul had a resolution “to known nothing among you except Christ, and him crucified.” I don’t suppose it was a New Year resolution though.
We all need to stop and take stock from time to time of our direction; repentance is Biblical–both turning from the flesh and turning toward a greater realization of God’s will in our lives. Resolutions can be about recognition of our weaknesses, or about acknowledgement of new vision God has given us.
I think that we need some cyclical reminder to take stock, and what better cycle than the orbit of Earth around God’s amazing Sun? New Year’s resolutions seem natural in that way…and the holiday football spectating and feasting only seem to force the issue each year.
For me, it’s not so much about diet, but about recognizing the principles that I need to operate by; New Year is an attitude and value check in my life. And the fact that it comes at the coldest, darkest, and often most financially-strapped time of the year just helps me dig even deeper to get my thinking right.
chard i so agree, but once a year to repent. i need to repent daily if not hourly, and yes some times to the minute. i wish i could go a year without sinning.
every time i use a hammer, remtecontrol, or get cut off in traffic. but my memory verses have been helping so much. any way thanks for your blog
i look forward to new perspectives every day its helping me to feel connected to the body like a good toe should.
god bless
pumba
Greg, come back Greg, come back. We miss you, you are the blog father, speak to us
RU Ever coming Back???
Fender, Gretchen, Taylor, WhaWha.. lunchbox,..Ummm let’s see….. Hot Tamale! Smashing tomatoes….
Susan you crack me up!!! If that post didn’t work, is there any hope at all???!!! :( Greg where for art thou? ;)
c
Greg is humbly allowing others to receive web logs.
They have theirs.
I am thirsty for a heart felt, god inspired, deep intervention of the holy side.
Clay is puching teeth out of his head and pulling his hair out.
We need insight….
Okay guys….. it looks as if we need a plan… How does picketing sound? OR.. I KNOW!!! We could all sit in the front row on Sunday morning with tomatoes in hand and just Smile alot!!!
Any other suggestions?
Oh tomatoes are good, Greg hates tomatoes… ;)
Hey susan, sorry I missed your study Monday, just too much on my plate this week and totally unable to fit in one more thing. :( bummed!!! Hope to be there next month though…
c
:o) Personally, I like the tomato idea. Sometimes, a sheep just has to make a serious statement…. BBBbbbbbaaaaaaaaahhhhh.. Know what I mean??
The study went well. It was a God thing, acutally. As it turned out, my sister came down from Caldwell and… because of a smaller group that night, she decided to join us.. * she’s LDS, not usually willing to venture close to spiritual matters with me anymore… but it was a sweet time that was the beginning of more sweet time. God is good. I have a prayer journal and a challenge for you if you’re up for it… (0)
Blessings 2U
s
I am up for it, I recently started up a prayer journal again! Lay it on me Susan! And hooray for your sis! I know she has been on your heart deeply. Let me tell ya, the journal thing- my great aunt is turning 98 soon. We just went up to see her in Seattle and she has journals dating WAY back! Now they aren’t prayer journals, but it was so cool to thumb through them. It made me realize that these journals of my prayers are something that helps me to organize my thoughts, remember my blessings and also will be passed down to my boys and who knows who else. It is a bit of a legacy.
So, what’s the challenge????
Lets get together for Java… we can talk F2F. :0) When would be a good time?
Oh boy, I hope soon, I am so sick! Kent and the boys have been sick too… I was feeling better but it is in a new phase as of tonight… Sigh! I’ll have to let you know when I’m feeling better again! Please pray that we all get well soon, this stinks!!! ;) Can’t wait to have some java and fellowship!
c
Ooohhh.. I am so sorry. Lord Jesus, will you please just touch this little family with your healing grace? WIll you bless them and heal them Lord according to your will? Thank you for these precious ones. For the blessing they are to your people. I pray not only for thier health physically, but that you would provide for all of their needs and draw them closely together in the center of your will and of your love. In Your name, Jesus AMEN :0)
Awww, thanks so much! We’re pluggging away, a little bit better each day, but won’t be at church again this Sunday because of it, am missing church!!! :( I’ll be in touch!
c