The New Year

Today I sit in my small nook of a closet, which I like to call my office, and I wonder what this new year will bring for me. What exciting times will I share with my friends or how many times am I going to fall on my knees and pray because at that moment, that is the only thing to do. When I begin a new year, it can usually be a scary yet exciting thing. For those of you who don’t know me, last year might have been the craziest, most hectic, year of my life. It involved me moving every possession that we have 3 times. I lived with the in-laws for 2 months. I left a great job hoping to find the calling and then realized how much of my heart was still in the place I left. I made some incredible friends that I quickly said good-bye to. I caught 2 and 1/2 Reds wading in the gulf during FANOFINTI (don’t ask). I learned how to worship and had the privilege to minister to a community of believers. I saw The Alamo twice. I at the Macho Camacho at Chris Madrid’s. I converted from “PC”ism to the Mac-life. And finally (i could keep going) I was blessed with the most beautiful little girl. God saw it fit that a screwed up yet redeemed sinner like me, would take the reigns on the spiritual growth of my daughter. I am completely humbled to see where I have been and where I am now and the responsibilities that God has brought before me. I know that there is a God and in His hands he holds me closer and closer each day. 

So with the new year already hear, I think I will make a list of 20 “these things will happen” for the upcoming year… and I may add some later

1. Fall in love with Christ more deeply and passionately than I ever have before.
2. Fall in love with my wife more deeply and passionately than I ever have before.
3. Write a new Song
4. Tell my daughter that I love her everyday
5. Get a dog
6. Swim in the river at the Cabin
7. Share Christ more with my actions than with my words (think about that a little deeper. If you still don’t understand ask me!)
8. Buy a House
9. Coach baseball
10. Follow through with Dave Ramsey’s Financial Freedom
11. Buy a Wii
12. Give my buddy Kyle a hug when his beautiful wife Amanda gives birth to their first child and then share a beer with him.
13. Be a spiritual encourager to my brothers
14. Cut the balls off a bull calf (I have already done this, but If I do this, that means I’m at the Ranch working cows with my father-in-law. And there are not to many places I would rather be…unless he starts yelling at me..ha ha ha)
15. Plan the Honeymoon that Cici and I never got to go on…
16. Watch Tennessee football (this one is easy…unless we suck again)
17. Share life with a complete stranger
18. Speak in tongues (just kidding)
19. Pray that Matt Damon would come to know Christ and If i get the opportunity to share it with him, don’t chicken out.
20. Drink some of my moms sweet tea.

There you have, quite a good list I must say. I encourage you to do the same…don’t make resolutions, they usually get broken. Don’t give yourself a chance for failure. Dream big when it comes to your list and think small too. And let God work in you and through you. 

-L-

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