My One Word : A late post to a New Year's "unresolution"

Each year I struggle with thinking of realistic "resolutions".  Lose weight, be healthier, eat organic, no more french fries, call my family more often....  All of these are fantastic ideas, but no matter how many lists I make, I seem to fall short by the end of January.  This year, I am trying something different.

My One Word.  This is something that a friend of mine from Hannah's Prayer turned me on to.  The basic gist of this challenge is to choose one thing to focus on; basically to have an annual "theme".  It's based on moving forward in growth, instead of focusing on what went wrong in the past.  It's about positive forward movement towards the person that God commands us to be.  My word this year?  Boundaries.

I find that I often make plans for things that I need to do-- things that I SHOULD be doing-- but Life gets in the way.  I need to set time aside for my devotional in the morning.  But the snooze button is so tempting and then once it's work time, the phone doesn't stop ringing.  Had I just set a boundary on my time, I would have accomplished what I needed to do, without wanting to throw the phone across the room (and sometimes that THUNK of the phone hitting the wall would be oh-so-satisfying!!)

I also agree to things that I really don't have the emotional or physical capacity for.  I come home, not with a feel-good sense of accomplishment, but a worn-out sense of exhaustion.  Not to mention the list of things piled up that I have now put off.

So, this year begins my study in Boundaries.  What it should truly mean, in light of what the Bible teaches us.  Why it's healthy, in light of what the Bible teaches us.  And how to apply it to my life on a "one day at a time" basis.