Capture 2009 – Create 2010

Jan 052010

Submitted by Christine Young, President – PWOC Europe

“See I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland.” Isaiah 43:19

Welcome to 2010 and another year of possibilities and potential.

Capture 2009

I love the New Year and the opportunity that we have to reevaluate the year we have just finished. Something happened in your life in 2009 and even though it may have been something painful, it’s worth remembering. You might consider the following suggestions:

Sit down soon and briefly journal the highpoints of 2009. Even if you take a half hour (the time it takes to watch a short sitcom), it is time well spent.
In our family we like to do a time capsule and put some highlights from the year, a picture and write goals for the New Year. We store it in a cylinder that won’t be opened until the following year. We ask what was the best thing that happened to you this year? Who are your closest friends? What was the hardest part of the year? What are you looking forward to in the coming year? If you did send out a holiday letter, make sure to include it in the capsule. Just an idea.
For those of you that love to scrapbook take time to pull your best photos from the year and scrapbook them.

Create 2010

Time is such a precious resource and one that we can never ever get back again. That being said, pause now to evaluate how you spend your time. If you didn’t get where you thought you would get last year, it may be that you didn’t plan your time in such a way that you would find success in your goals. What’s important to you? If someone were to follow you around for a week and observe your life in motion, what would they say your priorities are, based on how you spend your time? Plan your time accordingly. Live life on purpose!

God did so many wonderful things for you last year and He is going to do new and exciting things this year too. The trick is to see God at work in your life and cooperate with Him along the way. He knows the desires of your heart and wants us to steward our time for His glory. I pray that you commit your ways and days to Him and that when you reach the end of this year you will have found more fulfillment in who you are in Christ by how you’ve allocated your time in 2010.