Walking the Path in 2015—Part Three

 

Last week, I wrote about the specific areas that I was going to work on for 2015.  My hope through this short series was just to show you my way of trying to be intentional in my life.  God has His plans for my life, and I know that I usually uncover them as I walk with Him.  However, that does not mean that I can’t have a plan for my life to help me follow what He wants.  And I am always ready for all of my plans to go out the window, if He so chooses to change my course.  Actually, by not thinking that these plans are set in stone and coming back many times throughout the year to re-evaluate, I make sure that I am first seeking what He wants and then setting my goals to do what He wants in my life.

And that brings me to my last category, which is health.  For me, this is a big one.  As Mark loves to say, I “play disorder bingo where no one is the winner.”  For years, I have been trying to find ways to either eliminate or improve health issues.  This has been hard, since most medications make me much sicker than the actual disorder.  I have been left to find natural ways or just deal.  I choose to try to improve my health.

Walking the Path in 2015—Part Two

Last week, I shared with you how 2014 went.  Part of what helps me to decide what I want to work towards for the next year is to see how God has worked in my life in the past year.  Then from there I try to make goals that will guide how I want to live the next year.  These goals are flexible and I revisit them several times throughout the year.  They always change from the beginning of the year to the end as God guides me on my path.

My goals really fall into four categories each year: God, husband, home, and health.  Could I come up with more things?  Yes, but these are really the four areas that I want to be intentional about.  I will go over each one of the areas, and then tell you one or two of the many goals I have set for each to give you an idea.  If you would like to do this too, your categories and subsequent goals will obviously look different, but this should give you a general idea how to set goals that will work with how God works and changes your life.

Walking the Path in 2015—Part One

 

Now that it is a new year, I wanted to share a little bit about our previous year and what we are looking forward to in this new year.  Our lives look much different than they did (and oddly the same) at the beginning of 2014, and we have certainly changed ourselves.

Every year for the past several years I have taken the time at the beginning of a new year to examine my life and set goals that I want to work towards.  I don’t call them resolutions because they are not as firm or as concrete as normal “New Year’s Resolutions.”  They also tend to be about the same every year, not because I don’t accomplish goals, but more of the fact that it is a continuation on working to be a better person, wife, and Christian.  There is no end point to my goals and they are definitely fluid in the fact that I revisit them every so often through the year and adjust to fit where I am in life and correct what may not be working.