Goaly Goals.

My New Years' Goals.

Oh dear. She says with fear and trembling as she is about to post her most personal goals on the world wide web.

Here goes nothing. Hopefully me sharing a few of my goals will encourage and enable you to make and follow through with some of your own! Don't be discouraged. Even if it's February, and you have already bombed it on everything you set out to do, start over. Begin again, and don't let your fear of failing keep you from sanctification. Aside from eternal existence with Christ and abundant joy on earth, it's one of the greatest things about being a believer: You don't have to stay the same.

With that said...

My goals are divided into 5 Categories that connect with Luke 2:52 "And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, favor with God and man." (NIV)

SPIRITUAL (wisdom, favor with God)

1. I'm dedicating each month to studying a different discipline. i'm following one of my favorite author's Richard Foster's Classical Disciplines in his book Celebration of Discipline.

Jan - Prayer

Feb - Fasting

Mar - Meditation

Apr - Study

May - Simplicity

June - Solitude

July - Submission

Aug - Service

Sep - Confession

Oct - Worship

Nov - Guidance

Dec - Celebration

2. I'm memorizing at least 2 verse each month. "I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you." Psalm 119:11

3. Meditate on Scripture

4. Using each day of the week to pray specifically for those in my life and those in the world.

Mon - Family

Tues - My Klife Girls

Wed - Ryan

Thursday - Work friends/the Lost/Top 10 List

Friday - World missions

Sat - My girl friends

Sun - Our community Group

5. Journal

6. Read at least 1 spiritual enrichment book per quarter

Q1 - Prayer, by Richard Foster

Q2 - The Reason for God, Tim Keller

Q3 & Q4 - Suggestions welcome.

PHYSICAL (stature)

"She girds herself with strength and makes her arms strong." Prov 31:17

1. Lose that baby weight!

2. Have a prayerful attitude about my body.

PERSONAL (wisdom, favor with man)

1. Become a doula.

2. Learn how to sew.

3. Marriage - Serve, Love, Respect, Uplift.

4. House and Home - Maintain personal to-do list. Finish baby thank you notes by March 1st. :)

5. Cultivate a life of Evangelism, even in early motherhood.

6. Be a personal, loving, and disciplined momma to one stinking cute baby.

REALTIONAL (favor with man)

1. Serve and pursue our community group and my friends.

2. Service - pursue time with my Klife girls

3. Outreach to Enrich - pursue older women in different life stages through lunches or walks to learn from their wisdom.

PROFESSIONAL (Favor with man)

1. Maintain momentum

2. Manage people and my time well.

Oh Lord. Help it not be about checking off boxes, but about growing as a woman in Christ.

2011, Here we come.