New (Year/Semester/Etc.)

This semester will be different. I want it to be different and I'm ready for change. I think I like change. Actually, I hate change, but it is a vital and necessary part of life— therefore, I embrace it. In order to doing a little planning and maybe goal-setting, I'm going to list out everything that I want to be different this semester in comparison to last semester.

1. Attitude. Attitude, attitude, and oh, yeah, attitude. I need to be positive.

2. My relationship with God.

3. Reading my Bible... not for school, but for growth.

4. Regularly attending Grace Church.

5. Focusing on my school work and caring about my grades.

6. Exercising patience.

7. Committing to my health (thanks, mandatory PE class!).

8. Cutting back on the caffeine.

9. Making time for solid Christian relationships/making new friends.

10. Plugging into a Bible study and not hopping around.

11. Personal discipline. I currently have none.

12. Outreach.

13. Luke and I's relationship/communication issues.

14. Taking all thoughts captive! Especially around the roomies.

15. Confidence. Confinement. Dealing.

I think I'd better write these down and tack them to my bulletin board, so that they stare me in the face every day and I can remember them. I really want things to be different, and I know without a doubt that, by myself, I could never ever do any of them. I could never make positive habits or improve my relationship with my Father if I don't have his help. Without him, I truly can't do anything. I am powerless and hopeless. My flesh doesn't want to change and my heart is evil and deceptive. But with Him... oh, with Him all things are possible. If only we could believe that wholly... if only I could believe that wholly! Through Christ, all things are possible.

I am a daughter of the King.