A Look Forward.

In the next year, I'm going to start off where I left 2009: constantly seeking the Lord and not letting anything get in the way of that.

I look back at the year and I definitely am not the same person I was on January 1, 2009:
My tastes
my desires
my appearance (I wore earrings in the beginning of the year)
my attitudes
and my relationship with God

all changed within this year.

As the year went on, I grew closer and closer to the Lord. Things in my life changed that caused me to live a life more like Christ.

relationships tailed off
new ones started
my desire to serve God increased as the year went on
not being ashamed of my faith

There was a time when I became complacent in my walk with God and because of that, I ended a relationship. I don't ever want to go through that with someone again. I don't want to bring someone's relationship with God down. I don't want someone to put more focus on me than on our Lord.

I really hurt myself when I did that, but I hurt two others in the process: God and the girl I was dating at the time.
I know for sure that won't happen again.

This year I will strive to become more like Christ. This year I'm going to become a man of God. This year I will serve in God's army. This year I'm going to depend and trust more in God. This year I am going to keep my eyes focused on God and not on my surroundings. I have faith that this year, it will happen because I can do everything through him who gives me strength.

Songs of the Year: Up and Up - Relient K
Cannons - Phil Wickham

"I'm just trying to be a better version of me for You." [Up and Up - Relient K]
"I'm so unworthy, but still You love me. Forever my heart, will sing of how great You are." [Cannons - Phil Wickham]