I feel a blog post coming on.

It has been a long time since I have "felt a blog post coming on." In fact, I would not consider myself a blogger at all anymore. today is the first day in a long time that I have felt like writing on the blog, I just had to take a break. I promise deep down inside my heart I am a blogger, I just have a hard time finding time for it. And that is ok. But today the blog has tugged on my heart and I wanted to visit it with a new years post. If you are a long time reader of my blog, you will know that new years resolutions (or new yous resolutions as I like to call them) are a big deal to me. 2013 was a big year for us, we made a lot of changes and used a lot of prayer. At the begining of 2013 I made 3 new years resolutions, 2 of which I compleated successfully, and then quit after making awesome progress. :( And the third I was hit and miss on. So this year my goals are very similar. And I am ok with that. I was reading in Matthew this morning and a particular scripture jumped out at me as fitting seeing as it is new years. It gave me a little boost of motivation that I think I needed. He was talking about the scribes and pharisees and he said...

"All therefor whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not."

I dont want to be that person who says they will do something and does it not. Especially when it comes to spiritual matters. now, using this scripture to motivate me to floss my teeth more often maybe a stretch, but when it comes to teaching my children how to stick with something, even as silly as flossing my teeth, I dont want to be like the scribes and pharisees. Another source of motivation I am pulling from is this quote...

It has been one of my favorites for a long time, but I am finding renewed motivation from it. I dont think I can say much more about it. It is just so simple and speaks for itself. 2014 should be great. There are still lots of changes for our family and probably lots of prayer. But it is all good, and God is good. He is soooo good and we feel very blessed on a daily basis.