Here we go, new year’s resolution time.  Sigh….  do I hear some big deep sighs out there?  I heard one in here, I am sure.  I simply don’t like those three words, New Year’s Resolution, because when I don’t hit them in January, I tend to give myself permission to say, “Oh well, maybe next year.”  This year, I have goals, we’ll go with that.  The traditional “Lose 25 pounds” that remains at the top of the list and which is next to impossible until all this frickin’ Christmas candy is gone which I just – cannot – throw – away.  I want simple things like being able to sleep at night because my bills are paid, I want to mail a card to someone every week… the list is long and good gracious, I can’t get started on that right now.  Maybe later. 

Included on my list of GOALS in big letters is the word MORE, I simply want more.  Oh Good Lord, NOT more stuff, NO, NO, NO, that’s replaced with MORE simplicity. And HECK no to more candy, I wish someone would come this dang stuff up.  

In 2020, I simply want more of Him, more of me, more of others, more being, more presence, more quiet, more hugs, more hearing the sweet sound of “I love you” …..  I’m on a mission.

In 2020, I want daily adventures with God.  I believe they happen every day whether we notice them or not.   

                              In 2020, I want to notice them!  

I read once that daily adventures with God will add an excitement to our life that will change our perspective on everything and that has to be true!  Imagine going from humdrum, grocery shopping, going to work and watching the clock, changing diapers, to every day having or seeing or being in a string of little divine appointments.  Those humdrum moments turn into talking to the checkout girl whose day has sucked until you made her smile, telling your sad co-worker how much you appreciate her and making her glad she came to work, or tickling that baby whose diaper almost ran you out of the room!  What giggle from a baby can’t erase that smell, well, I mean almost, right?!  But our days will go from the mundane to hidden treasures.  

                              In 2020, I want to make every day about finding those hidden treasures.  

I pray to see life like this, to open up this big storehouse of joy that God has waiting for me, for us, not just on the “big” days but on all days in all the little ways.

I believe that we all have the ability to reveal God to others through our being, not in the Martha mentality of doing, doing, doing, just in being…. being present, being willing, being open, being real, even on the hard days, so much so that others want to know what makes us that way or better yet, Who makes us that way.  I pray in 2020 to live in such a way that others think…

                            “I’ll have what she’s having!”

In 2020, I want to be so full of adventure, not just on the grandeous days hiking a mountain but in the mornings drinking coffee, alone or with the one I love, taking in the grandeous in that.  I want to be so full of love, peace, joy, that I drive my kids crazy (crazier), and so full of Him, that the journey is exhaustingly, chaotically, incredibly beautiful, better than any journey I could have chosen for myself!

                           I can’t get more life but I can more out of the life I have left

and I want to squeeze out every drop so that when it’s done, whether it’s tomorrow or in 30 years, I can say, I couldn’t ask for more. 

                           This girl is just getting started!

What’s your mission statement or goals or resolutions for 2020?  Please share a comment (or ten!) below, I love to hear from you!