I’m pretty big on setting goals.  As a matter of fact, one of the reasons I love the new year so much is because I get to start over again…I get to set new goals…I get to begin writing the new story that is my life.  For whatever reason it just seems like January 1 offers a new, clean slate.  I love that!

But this year I really want to write a new story.  Literally. 

I’m sometimes shocked at how much of a rut I can get into.  There are things I have always wanted to do and have never done them.  There are things I know need to be addressed in my life but I have never addressed them.  In some ways I feel like my life is a book that I keep reading over and over again expecting something exciting to happen but instead I read the same old things.

But this year I am determined that it will be different.  None of this is easy and as a matter of fact I, like everyone else, am prone to take the path of least resistance and usually this lands me back in my rut.  A rut can be defined as a “grave with both ends open.”  Who wants to be in the grave?  This year my story will be different.  And this is not a resolution.  I am literally asking God to help me writing a different story with my life…a better story.

And most of my new story involves how I view my life and those around me.  I no longer want to be held captive by the story that tends to lead to bad thinking and bad habits.  I want God to help me become something that I have never been before.  The Apostle Paul tells us in Galatians chapter 5 and 6 that we are “Called to Freedom”!

And freedom is what I am after. 

My new and better story will encompass my physical body, my mental state, my professional goals and most of all my spiritual level (we’re moving on up baby!).  I am eagerly looking forward to reading this story at the end of 2010 and I hope you will do the same.  I will be expanding these thoughts in a sermon series called “The Story You Tell” based in the book of Galatians which begins on January 17^th.  But until then, I would love to hear from you.  What kind of story do you want to tell in 2010?  Comment below and let me know.

Looking forward to the next chapter…

PB