So….without “documented resolutions,” I still know from my “routines” that it’s January when I----
- Open my new 2011 “At-A-Glance calendar (hubby’s perfect gift) and using my newly sharpened to a razor tip pencil, write in upcoming events on those pristine monthly pages
- Cut out Lean Cuisine Coupons (using them is always iffy)
- Dump leftover sweets in trash (though not the really good ones like Carolyn’s fudge)
- E-mail Ellen about walking
- Floss more
- Make mini adjustments to my diet & don’t include Houston’s butter cookies on my Tuesday lunch order (not yet anyway)
- Smell like grapefruit in the morning----it splatters all over me
- Read magazine articles on organizing & clearing clutter
- Start looking for Disciplines of a Beautiful Woman to read, yet again. (1 of only 2 books I reread)
So, you ask---why no resolutions? I know myself---short-term goals are better for me. I tend to “fret” over my unfulfilled resolutions. (i.e. failures) Romans 7:14-20 passage hits the nail on the head in so many ways. Though the passage is about the law & the sin within, there were some verses that really summed it up for me. It’s sort of a spiritual stretch but God does that for me sometimes when He’s showing me my “self.”
I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. ……..For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. (Romans 7:15 & 18 b.)
