Runnels Rhapsody

Out with the Old and In with the New

So 2007 is just around the corner now. I've been blogging for nearly a year. Wow!

I'm ready for a new year. There's just something about a clean slate, a fresh calendar, that gives hope and excitement about what is to come. I sense the Lord leading me to focus my heart even more at home. I work 2 part-time jobs, almost entirely from home, and I'd love to give them up. But financially we can't do it quite yet. So I am challenging myself to truly give my best energy and time to my family and to the best of my ability not let the work-related items consume me when I'm not on the clock. I've been taking steps in this direction for a few weeks already, so it's not entirely new. It really does wonders for my attitude (and DH's and DD's) when peace reigns in our home, when I can serve up tasty and healthy meals, when the house is tidy (not perfectly clean, but tidy). Life is just simply better.

I also resolve to laugh more in 2007. When I look back over my days, I think I take life too seriously and find it's a rare thing for me to enjoy a good belly laugh (and even rarer for me to laugh at myself!). Definitely, I need to laugh more.

I am realizing I should work on my 2006 Year In Review. For the last 5+ years I've written a few pages at the end of the year with highlights. This is just for our personal archives, not for a newsletter or for public viewing. I usually include job info, salary info, trips we've taken, friends we've had over, spiritual victories or defeats, etc. Anything that comes to mind that we would like to look back on years down the road. Even now, I enjoy looking back over previous years and am reminded of things I have forgotten.

Well, I should head to bed. Happy 2007! May God have His way among us!