Blogging another resolution....

O.K. So far blogging about my blogging resolution has gone pretty well. With this post, I will exceed the number of blogs that I posted the WHOLE last half of last year...apparently, I work well when accountable. So I am going to try this again. Another resolution that I had this year was in regards to my spiritual life. I NEED and WANT to dig into God's Word more this year - My mom told me the other day, "More of Him in twenty-ten!" and that is EXACTLY what I want. I pray that this year will be a year that I will focus on Him...as I should. I'm not going to set a CRAZY goal to read the Bible in a year...because I don't think I would do well with that and I don't necessarily need the words, I am craving relationship. What I am trying to do is read my Bible everyday and keep a prayer journal.

The composition notebook above is how my prayer journal started out. It has since become this...

See, here is the side-by-side....

I personalized it with one of my favorite scriptures about prayer...

Just in case you can't read it - It is 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 Be joyful always; pray continually; give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus.

I made myself START the journal before I had the chance to decorate it, because I kept putting it off until I had the journal I wanted. There is NOTHING about the outside cover that makes anything INSIDE worth any more or less...so I needed to STOP procrastinating!! My journal is a hodge-podge of ideas...sort of like me...it needs to be, in order to be something that I will find useful. I don't have any hard and fast rules...as long as I do include pages that have prayer requests and room to write answers to those prayers. I also have written scripture passages in there...many about prayer...and some from my morning devotional time. And there are song lyrics that come to my mind as I am praying and reading His word.

If anyone were to pick it up, it would probably make NO sense - but that isn't the point of this journal. I simply want it to be a tool to hold me accountable to spending time with God each day and also as a reference to see how God answers the prayers that I lift up to Him. I imagine that at the end of this year, if you help hold me accountable, that I will have more than one journal filled...and I will rejoice as I see the answers to some of my prayers and cry at the answers to some of the others. But all the while, I will be growing closer to my God. Yup - no doubt about it, I want more of Him in twenty-ten!