Every day we make more decisions than we can keep track of on both hands. From the decision to get up out of bed to what time we will get back into bed later that same day. We make decisions without even thinking about it. Today at church our Pastor talked about decisions and making 2011 our year. He said that every decision that we make affects people in our lives either in a good or bad way, but we need to make the decisions no matter what that are best for us. He also reminded us that every decision that we will ever make has already been planned for us by God. That is amazing to me that my future is planned out even though I do not even know what my future holds and I fret about it every day. I wish that I could ask him to let me peek into my future so I would at least have a clue of which paths to take.
Every year I go into January 1st with fresh thoughts of the changes I will make in my life that will better my life and those around me. Every year, it seems as if nothing changes and I am kept in this whirlpool effect of a rut that is me and my life. I tell myself that this is how things are meant to be or it wouldn't be this way. The thing I am missing is that I am waiting for answers to fall into my lap without doing anything to make things happen. This is something I vow to change this year.
For so long I have wanted to write and last year I created this blog. While my followers may not be the thousands I long for one day, it gives me great joy to hear my friends and family tell me how much they enjoy my blog and that fills me with happiness. This is a change I made last year that was for the better and I long for so much more of that in 2011.
Those closest to me know of a decision that I need to make and one day want to make, at least that's what I tell myself. Yet every year as mentioned before I am swimming in my whirlpool somewhere in the middle of staying in my rut and jumping out of it. I think I make progress each year, but the need to fully escape this whirlpool is a decision that rules my mind...and to think that God already knows my decision makes me wonder just what to do.
I do want 2011 to be my year, THE year, but the decisions I make this year will be my blueprint for the future and that seems complicated, but I know I can do it or get closer to my goal. After all, God has already given me everything I need to get there and I have faith.
So as you wake up in the morning think about all your decisions and where they will lead you in 2011. I know I will.
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