New Year's Resolutions

How was your 2013?

I feel like mine was fun, but unless ‘join Twitter’ and ‘watch the entirety of Gilmore Girls’ was on my list of New Year’s Resolutions, I didn’t succeed in any of my goals for the year ( I actually can’t find the list of resolutions I drew up. Maybe ‘get more organised’ should be on there).

In an attempt to achieve at least one of my life goals this year, I spent Christmas in Iceland to see the Northern Lights, but despite having a fantastic time, the weather didn’t cooperate and that goal still remains unfulfilled.

This sent me into a bit of a faith crisis as to why God never seems to answer my prayers and whether praying was in fact pointless. Of course, after I’d had a nap and thought about people in Syria a bit, I gained a modicum of perspective over God not micro-managing the weather on my nice holiday for me. But it did make me realise that my faith is quite fickle, and I’m not convinced that when I talk to God he’s actually listening.

I don’t think I believe in New Year’s Resolutions anyway - changing yourself through sheer will seems like it’s destined to fail (at least in my case). So here are my only concrete plans for 2014:
1. Pray every day.
2. Leave time for listening.
3. Read the whole of the Bible.It’s not as glamorous sounding as ‘run a marathon’, but I can’t think of anything else that will be as worthwhile. Happy New Year, lovely people!
4. Also have a plan to go back to Iceland very soon to try again with seeing the Northern Lights. I suffer for my faith.                    5. Plus, manage my money better. Not necessarily compatible with number 4. 

Holding Message

For anyone that’s interested – Bible In A Year will be starting on 1^st January. I need to finish reading ‘How To Read The Bible For All It’s Worth’ before commencing, and the guide I’m using starts on January 1^st. I’m too rubbish at maths and play too much by the rules to deviate from that.