I haven’t blogged in so long that WordPress decided to automatically log me out. Thank you, WP, for protecting my best interests.
Anyhow, I haven’t been blogging because… my life has been boring. And that’s totally fine by me. It was the first year in… um, a really long time I have no zero school, so that really freed up a lot of time. Basically I spent this year reading a ridiculous amount of book, stalking people on facebook, rewatching Grey’s Anatomy from the start, falling in love with Friday Night Lights, moving out of my parents’ house and then spending more time each week at their home than my apartment, making old friendships stronger and turning new friendships into old ones, and growing as a person. It has been a good year. I’m ready for what 2012 has to bring, though.
With that said, I’m going to list some of my new year’s goals. I read on the interwebz of a lady calling her “resolutions” goals instead because it seemed to make more sense, so hereunto, I present you with Krista’s New Year’s Goals.
- Grow in God.
I’ve been going to Calvary Chapel in Camarillo for about 15 months now and I love it. But lately I’ve been slacking in the church/God department. I know that God doesn’t dwell only or primarily in church, but it’s a good place to be built up and to learn. I really want to focus on learning about God this year and growing in my walk with Him. I have so much to learn, and I really want to approach learning about Him the way I have always done with school, and that is with full force and with excitement! He has become more real and special to me since I started going to church again, and I don’t feel like it’s right for me to profess to being a Christian but not living a lifestyle that really shows that. There are a million things I could write to be more specific, but I’d like to make it general because this is a really personal goal for me. There is a lot of work that needs to be done in me, and I’m thankful that I have some really fantastic friends in my life who will hold me accountable to this goal because they also understand its relevance to the lives we live. And I’m very thankful that these same people will have the hard conversations with me about my life when I’m not living it in a way that honors God. - Read through the New Testament.
When I started going to church in 2010, I started reading through the Bible, beginning with the Old Testament. Mistake. Seriously, I lost interest not because it was boring (well… it was a little less interesting) but because it’s hard to relate to some of the OT because we live in a New Testament world. So while I’d love to read the entire Bible the whole way through at some point, I’m going to start just by saying I want to read the entire NT this year. I want to know what Jesus did and said, and I want to be more like Him. I think doing this will really help me with the first goal, to grow in God, because how can you not grow in God when you’re reading through the words His Son said??? - Be healthier.
Again, I could be a lot more specific with this one, but I don’t want to set any unrealistic goals for this one. I do have plans to do the Couch to 5K and follow that with the Bridge to 10K program, but other than that, I really just want to be intentional about putting healthy things into my body and to do things like moving more and using my body in the way God intended it to be used instead of sitting around, being lazy. Lazy is good but I always feel even better when I’ve been active and healthy! - Read books I have sitting around my house.
There are so many books I have sitting on bookshelves that I’ve wanted to read and just haven’t. I’m so excited to get started with this goal tomorrow. I’ve picked 14 books I want to read throughout the year. Of course I’ll read more, but these are the 14 that I know I’ll read for sure:- Lacuna, Barbara Kingsolver
- My Name is Memory, Ann Brashares
- The First Hour I Believed, Wally Lamb
- My Name is Mary Sutter, Robin Oliveria
- Freedom, Johnathan Franzen
- … And the Ladies of the Club, Helen Hoover Santmyer
- World Without End, Ken Follett
- Some Sing, some Cry, Ntozake Shange
- Redeeming Love, Francine Rivers
- Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
- Sophie’s Choice, William Stryton
- The Great American University
- Getting In, Karen Stabiner
- The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery
- Drink less soda/caffeine.
We’ll see. This is more goal every year but I struggle with each time.
