Resolutions tend to help me face the next stage with a more positive spirit and with a feeling of preparedness. I usually have a long list and I usually think about them at least a month before the new year. However, this year, with moving back home, adjusting back to life in England, me visiting family and friends, Friends visiting me from other countries, searching for a job, etc, I haven't been as well prepared for 2013 as I would like to be. It's a daunting year for me because for the first time in my life I am currently not in school or work and it's not because I am on vacation. Anxiety because of the unknown is driving me crazy to say the least! I can't survive the whole year like this, so I decided to get cracking before the end of January at very latest.
I asked a friend of mine what her resolutions were for this year, I hope she won't mind me sharing this with you but this is what she told me word for word:
"Mine are to have more celebrations, have more dinners with church friends at our house, and cook at home as often as possible instead of eating out. Also be a good mom! (She is going to be a first time mother in a few weeks yay!!)"
So simple, but yet for me they hold so much promise for a good year! It got me thinking that I didn't have to be elaborate and grandiose but in fact to look for the simple things in life. She really isn't asking for much but just to have good times year round and that would be enough for her!
Why do we always chase after more than just pure happiness in life?
I think she has helped me relax a little and come up with my ultimate resolution.
"...I have learned to be content with whatever I have. I know how to live on almost nothing or with everything. I have learned the secret of living in every situation, whether it is with a full stomach or empty, with plenty or little. For I can do everything through Christ, who gives me strength." Philippians 4:11-13 (NLT)
Over the past few years, I have found myself chasing after things that I thought would make me happy and ofcourse, naturally, I am never satisfied. This year, I don't want things, I just want to be happy and content in Christ. If He is all I have then I have all I need. I may still make lists and resolutions for the year, but with the thought in mind that my happiness it not tied to them but to God. As long as I stay close to Him then wherever 2013 may take me, I know to be content within that situation. Just realising this has made removed all the anxiety for this year.
2013 will be the year of happiness and contentedness.
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