{"id":1769,"date":"2006-12-26T21:50:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-26T21:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2006\/12\/new-year-resolutions-1.html"},"modified":"2006-12-26T21:50:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-26T21:50:00","slug":"new-year-resolutions-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2006\/12\/new-year-resolutions-1.html","title":{"rendered":"New Year Resolutions"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, I’ve been thinking about posting my New Year resolutions, but I only have three so far:
\n1. Lose weight — I want to lose 20 pounds because I recently gained weight and my clothes are too tight.
\n2. Work on relearning Hebrew — I am really weak in Hebrew and have to spend some time relearning it so I’m going to continue translating Genesis. Also, I’m a little rusty on Greek and need to work on that as well but I’m taking Acts and Paul so that will help a lot.
\n3. Cleaning out the toy\/computer\/junk room so that my husband can use it as a den\/TV room\/office
\nI’m sure I should probably say something spiritual like, read the Bible more or pray more or be more like Jesus but that’s a given, right? Along those lines, here’s<\/a> a link to Jonathan Edward’s list of resolutions.
\nIs anyone else working on their list? Here’s<\/a> a list of the common top ten resolutions. And if you really need help, you could take this quiz<\/a>. I put in “lose weight” and I got this list:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
Your New Year’s Resolutions<\/b><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n1) Get a pet pig
\n2) Eat more nuts
\n3) Travel to Mexico
\n4) Study artificial intelligence
\n5) Get in shape with pilates<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
What Should Your New Year’s Resolution Be?<\/a><\/div>\n

Relearn Hebrew elicits this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
Your New Year’s Resolutions<\/b><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n1) Get a pet pony
\n2) Eat less onions
\n3) Travel to New Zealand
\n4) Study communism
\n5) Get in shape with pilates<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
What Should Your New Year’s Resolution Be?<\/a><\/div>\n

Updated to add for the Carnival:<\/span>I decided to add, read some of the books that I have on my “to read” list and to accomplish this goal, I joined the Chunkster Challenge<\/a>. Hopefully publicly listing the book I intend to read will help motivate me to finish them.
\nI think that these goals all boil down to discipline, I want the discipline to do the things I don’t want to do. I want to lose weight but I don’t want to give up chocolate though I’m hopeful that I’ll want good health more than I want chocolate. I’ve been able to do it in the past, hopefully I can do it in the future as well.
\nI know that some people don’t like to make resolutions they won’t keep but I like to look at the new year as a fresh start, a time to reflect on what I wanted to accomplish and didn’t and a renewed commitment to do so. If I give up and allow myself to face the new year with the expectation that nothing will change, then I take away the hope of never growing in areas that I really need to grow in.
\nBut the most amazing thing is that even my failures lead to growth. I know my pitfalls in dieting, in fact I’ve become quite the expect in how not to lose weight \ud83d\ude42 and now I can help others (like my husband and kids) to avoid those pitfalls. And each time I relearn Greek and Hebrew, it reinforces what I was originally taught. My failures lead to growth.<\/p>\n

“Growth begins when we begin to accept our own weakness” Jean Vanier<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Not by learning to live with our failures but learning that it’s a struggle, one that I haven’t given up on.<\/p>\n

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