A fading New Year’s resolution
New Year’s resolutions can be a tricky bag of guilt. We are well-intentioned as we make plans for fresh starts in the new year, only to find these resolutions slowly fading away. Some have embraced choosing a word to focus on and even to study from God’s word. Amy Carroll shares today about the struggle she had with a Word-of-the-Year and how God gently used it to teach her in the midst of the fading New Year’s resolution.
Amy Carroll is a speaker and writer for Proverbs 31 Ministries. She’s the author of Breaking Up with Perfect as well as the director and coach of Next Step Speaker Services. Amy and her husband live in lovely Holly Springs, NC with a bossy miniature dachshund. You can find her on any given day texting her two sons at college, typing at her computer, reading a book, or trying to figure out one more alternative to cooking dinner. Share life with Amy at www.amycarroll.org and on Facebook.
Oh Amy, I have not chosen a word for 2017 because I always seem to forget about it by now 🙂 But this video is SO encouraging I’m going to pray for God to give me one to focus on as I love your ideas for looking up verse references and journaling it with your 3 questions daily. Thank you!
I know exactly what you mean! The other way I’ve been reminding myself is to have it written around my house. I have a little chalkboard in my kitchen, and my word resides there most of the year!
What a great phrase for 2017, Mary Lou. Thanks for sharing!
I absolutely love this, thank you Amy!! My phrase for 2017 is “Overflowing Abundance”
“Give to others, and God will give to you. Indeed, you will receive a full measure, a generous helping, poured into your hands—all that you can hold. The measure you use for others is the one that God will use for you.” Luke 6:38.
In my study Bible, it said that the meaning in Bible times most likely was poured onto your lap-and outer garment worn, leaving a fold over the belt that could be used as a large pocket to hold and receive wheat (something that was of great value back then.)