New Year, Same Old Cowboys

02 Monday Jan 2012

Posted by Seeking Peace in 2012, New Year

I’m fundamentally against the New York Giants winning a game but I get a strange satisfaction from seeing the Cowboys lose. I don’t know how many stories about Tony Romo’s hand it takes for anyone else to get sick of the Cowboys but it took no more than 2 for me. var gaJsHost = ((“https:” == document.location.protocol) ? “https://ssl.” : “http://www.”); document.write(unescape(“%3Cscript src='” + gaJsHost + “google-analytics.com/ga.js’ type=’text/javascript’%3E%3C/script%3E”)); try { var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker(“UA-12356560-1”); pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {}

Go Saints!

Moving on…

I can’t help but wonder what the new year has in store for me. I seem to be a person gifted with seeing the suffering in life much more clearly than what most people consider “the good stuff” and while I sometimes wish it wasn’t the case, I think seeing suffering so easily allows me to be compassionate to people who are hurting. I can’t help but think, based on the past few weeks, that 2012 won’t be more of the same.

Or maybe not.

Either way, my only resolution is to get back on track to knowing God better, to love the Lord my God with all my heart, mind, soul and strength and to love my neighbor, yes even the neighbors who make life hard, too. If I can manage this resolution, even if only better tomorrow than today, 2012 will be a good year.

Grace and peace to you.

The Valley of The Unknown

31 Friday Dec 2010

Posted by Seeking Peace in covenant prayer, John Wesley, New Year

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Happy birthday to me! Nope, it’s not today but I’ve got a great bunch of friends who have supported by effort to raise $500 for Charity:Water during this birthday month. Not only did they help me reach my goal – they doubled it! $1,004 is going to Charity:Water to dig water wells and provide clean drinking water for people who are literally dying for it. I’m pumped and can’t thank those who participated enough.

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In a few hours we will send out 2010 and step into 2011. For some of us, 2010 won’t be missed but, unfortunately, we cannot run away from the hurts and pains this year brought our way. Not only that, we are going into the unknown. Who knows what 2011 will be? Are we usually hopeful for a better year? Yes, of course. Then again, I was hopeful for 2010 to be a great year…and it wasn’t.

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Here are my 2011 resolutions:
1. Write better. I go back and re-read some of my blogs and crack up where I can tell I combined two thoughts into one sentence without taking grammar into consideration. We’ll see how it goes.
2. To make no more resolutions. I’m not sure I can resolve to not resolve but I’m done making plans, goals and resolutions in a life I have little, if any, control of. I just want God to open my eyes to what He places in front of me and seize the opportunities He gives me. I want to live in His plans which will be far superior to mine.

Please don’t think I’m advocating that for everyone…it’s for me. I’m not going to workout or eat better or read more and be kinder just because I said it’s something I want to do on January 1st. Heck, I’ve been wanting to do all that for years and where is “wanting to” getting me? I either will or I won’t but I don’t want to get bogged down in all that; only in what God has in store for me.

I want to share John Wesley’s Covenant Prayer with you again. I posted it on September 21 and I’m trying again to speak it with conviction each morning. I leave it with you as a thought for how to live out 2011. Wesley’s Covenant Prayer

Happy New Year and may it be filled with grace and peace for you.