Here's a picture I wanted to share from the holidays... a snowy Christmas! I was so excited - really. I couldn't believe it when I woke up and looked outside and the ground was covered and snow was falling. It made for a perfect morning. :) I felt like a little kid again - ha. So most of us went out and played in the snow for a while and the result was the "Bunny Snowman." :)
I'm excited to say that I completed a New Year's resolution for 2010 today. I read through the whole NIV Chronological Bible this year and it's been fantastic! :) I have had many, many years where I started this, but didn't finish - and to finally finish this year gives me such a sense of accomplishment AND gives me hope for success in next year's resolutions. In 2011, I want to scale back and do a reading plan that will take me just through the New Testament so that I can spend a little more time and thought on what I'm reading. I also want to read several books on prayer (starting with Praying God's Word by Beth Moore) and develop a better 'habit' of prayer each day that I hope will lead to a greater dependence on God.
2010 has been a good year. As I look to 2011, there are some big things ahead. Mackenzie will graduate high school and start college. Anna will move on from middle school and start high school. I will more than likely be finding at least a part time job - a BIG change for me. Jack's work situation is about to go thru some changes - most likely he'll be doing the same job, but working for a different employer... SO - a year of new things ahead. I sit here right now and know that I'm really not ready for it all - but it's coming so it's time to get ready! That's what new years are for, right? ;-)
Anyways, going back for just a minute to reading thru the Bible, this was unexpected, but I was totally engrossed in Hebrews when I read thru it - like I was reading it for the first time or something. So I thought I'd share a verse from there to end out this year and usher in the next:
Anyways, going back for just a minute to reading thru the Bible, this was unexpected, but I was totally engrossed in Hebrews when I read thru it - like I was reading it for the first time or something. So I thought I'd share a verse from there to end out this year and usher in the next:
"Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near to God with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful." - Heb 10:19-23
