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Tag Archives: New Year’s resolutions
Finish It!
I bore easily. I am intrigued by a new project, weary of an old one. I leave a trail of unfinished tasks. What incomplete items clutter your living space? Half done crafts Abandoned building projects Redecorating never quite completed … Continue reading
Exercise Discipline
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Good Word – Good Work!
I asked God what my one word should be for 2015. Discipline. That didn’t sound fun. I ignored it. God repeated: Discipline. I looked it up: The word discipline comes from the Latin word disciplina which means … Continue reading
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2015 in One Word
Have you heard of one word resolutions? You focus on one word for the whole year. How’s that sound? Terrific Crazy Intriguing Your one word can be a godly attribute or spiritual discipline–patience or solitude, for example. … Continue reading
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Resolute Worship
Resolved: to obey the 1st Commandment (the Message Bible phrases it so well): Exodus 20:3 No other gods, only me. God isn’t just #1, he is the only One.
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Resolved: “Rop tú mo Baile”
This ancient Irish monastic meditation goes way back, to at least the 8th century. It is familiar to us as the hymn “Be Thou my Vision.” Thou and Thou only, first in my heart, High King of … Continue reading
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Resolved to Go
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Resolution: Worship
For once, I’m ahead of the deadline. I started my New Year’s spiritual resolution. I’d finished a 40-day study on prayer (I can’t lie; it took me 53 days). Me: What’s next, Lord? Consistency, maybe? God: Worship. And … Continue reading
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Spiritual Resolution
It’s time for your New Year’s resolutions. Last year’s are as appropriate as ever I’m resolving to go with the flow I live without resolutions, that way I don’t fail Make 2015 the year you … Continue reading
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Building Resolve (Friday)
“Take my hands, and let them move At the impulse of Thy love; Take my feet and let them be Swift and beautiful for Thee.” Frances Ridley Havergal, Take My Life and Let It Be, 1874 … Continue reading
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