Follow the Leader…
January 2nd, 2007 by Jenni
Happy New Year!!! It’s 2007, so hard to believe! So my husband, Christian made a declaration on his blog and I decided that I better follow him :) This year he is going to do a blog entry everyday and tag them with Blog365, it doesn’t have to be long just thoughts or a picture, something.
So I’m going to do it too only a little differently. Yesterday our pastor spoke about New Year’s resolutions and what the Bible says about them. It’s good to have positive goals, to decide you want to diet, to be a better person, to decide to be more patient with your children or to not punch your brother in the face everyday. Those are good things. He said something that stuck out to me though (amazingly I heard part of the sermon between trying to keep our three children somewhat quiet and into the service:), said the Bible, whenever it commands you to stop doing something it tells you to do something different than what you were doing. Like, don’t lie but tell the truth. Don’t steal, but give. Don’t be angry, but kind. These are all things that take action. It’s one thing to say that I am going to lose 20 lbs, but how? What are the steps I’m going to take? It’s one thing to say that I’m going to be more patient with my children, but what does that mean I have to stop doing? And with what am I going to replace those attitudes with?
So here it is. By nature I tend to see the negative things in people before I see the positive. I tend to be a sceptic. A realist, some would like to call it. So I want to learn this year to be a more positive person. I want to draw the goodness out of those I’m around. I want to draw goodness out of my children, and my husband, and those I am around. So in following my husband’s leadership, today I decided that I am going to write a blog entry every day this year, but my entry that I count at my Blog365 is going to be a entry about something positive that I noticed in someone, in doing this I hope to push myself to look for more positive things in my children, in my husband, my friends and the grocery clerk at the store!
I was telling my son Aidan today that the power of life and death is in the tongue and explaining it to him. I think he got it, and he later on said to me, “Mommy, I really love Eamon. Do you think that makes him happy?” “Yes, honey, I know it does!” And it makes mommy happy too!
So for my first entry of the year 2007, I just have to say something positive about the one who inspired this entry. My man is a great husband. He helped me with the dishes today, he changed every poopy diaper today, he took care of me and the kids without one complaint, and this is not just him on a vacation day, he’s always like this. I am blessed of women, I have an incredible husband! And my prayer for him this year is that he will reach some of his goals and that God will bless him with wisdom and strength. I love you honey, thanks for inspiring me to greatness, I love being your helpmeet.
Happy New year everyone!
Anybody want to join me?
Thanks babe, you are the best! This will be fun.
..The problem I would have with a commitment to blogging everyday, even such a great thing as saying positive things.. is that it ties me to must having internet access everyday. And must spending time that day to write a blog entry.
I love reading blogs that are very active. But I have not found blogging, in and of itself, to be something important enough to chain myself to doing every day, no matter what other opportunities come up in real life.
Yeah, I think that if you read my post my challenge also has to do with moving beyond what you might think as blogging. I am choosing to produce some content everyday. If we are on vacation I might not have access to a computer, but I could write something on a notecard, date it, and blog it later. Or I could just take a few days off, and my 365 days of blogging might take 380 days. No pressure for anyone to join. It took me 6 months to see the value of doing this. It is not about starting on January 1st. This is an open ended invitation.