It's 4:30 on Sunday morning, and I am wide awake. Not only am I wide awake, but I have been so since 2:15. Why, you ask? Well, I have yet to figure that one out. As it usually happens when I wake up so early, I lie in bed for a little while and then start coming up with ideas of things I could do....Nair my legs, exercise, pay bills, go to Wal-Mart, paint my nails, check out my Facebook page, read, blog, pluck my eyebrows...you name it - I've probably gotten up to do it in the middle of the night. This time, I decided to go to Twitter and try to figure it out. After all, I set up an account over a year ago, but have yet to figure out how to use the darn thing. Truthfully, I've never really tried.
As any of you who have a Twitter account know, they have a character limit on updates....which is a dilemma for me. Because as any of you who know me know, while I was given the gift of communication (yeah, I know it might not be a gift, but I'm claiming it), I was not given, or maybe I just haven't developed, the art of succinct communication. When I see a place to update your profile and tell about yourself in 160 characters or less...I'm at a complete loss.
I sat there staring at the blank space wondering what 160 characters I would use to sum up who I am, and come up with absolutely nothing. Not one word - witty or otherwise to describe myself. I think I was too focused on not going over the limit, so I decided to just think about anything that describes me, my life experience, etc....
As I sat there thinking of the words that would describe me, I realized, that if I had to write down what others might use to describe me, I probably wouldn't look like much. You know what though? It's more important what He uses to describe me. Let's be real....I'd so much rather use that assessment than my own or that of anyone else.
So who am I?
In Him, I am not the sum of my life situations, circumstances, failures, short comings, or missed opportunities, but so much more. I am fearfully and wonderfully made, called with a story of my own, created in His likeness for a purpose much greater than I am or could ever hope to be on my own. I am strong in Him, triumphant, and free to be me.
At the end of the day (or morning - since it's just after 5), my Twitter profile says this about me:
Jesus follower, mother, sister, friend, and thankfully, through Him, more than what I would look like on paper.
And guess what? I still had 49 characters left to use...maybe I am getting better at using fewer words after all. Okay, probably not. =)
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
New Year - New Resolutions
I started writing this before New Year's, but as usual, I'm best when I procrastinate.....hahahahaha! Maybe I should make that a new goal. Okay, probably not.
Well, it's that time of year again. You know, the time I sit down, think about where I am, where I want to be, and promptly come up with some off the wall plan on how I'm going to get there.
Okay, so I'm taking a different approach to my resolutions this year. Instead of saying I'm gonna lose more weight than the total body weight of a small child, save more money than I make in two years, or read my Bible through three times, I'm going to be realistic in my approach. Here we go:
1. Spend more quality time reading my Bible or doing my devotionals than I do now. I'm not saying I'm going to read more necessarily, but focus more on what I'm reading. It's not a contest. I don't think there's a point system that says "Wow, Kim read 4 chapters tonight and Suzie only read 2. Kim's clearly the winner". =)
2. Whether I lose a single pound or not, I will exercise more. I love boot camp class - okay, so not while I'm in it, but shortly after we're done - and I intend to pick up an interval running class as well. Once again - it's not a competition, but it's about me feeling like I'm doing something better for my overall health.
3. Have people over more often. I want to cook dinner for friends and family and just enjoy sharing life together in a real way. No pretenses, no expectations - just good company sharing good times.
4. Make a cleaning/yard schedule and stay on it - not at the expense of missing out with the people in my life, but so that we are able to spend more time relaxing in the end. I believe that being on a schedule actually frees you up to do other things.
5. Find ways to give back to my community - and get about proactively accomplishing that. After all, who doesn't feel better after giving back to someone with no thought for what you might get in return. There are plenty of people in need - and not just financially - and I might be the person who has something to offer them. To be honest, it will probably be a time or volunteer commitment over a monetary one, but that can be as valuable as money sometimes.
6. Last, but not least, take the time to really tell those around me how much they mean to me. After all, if I lost all the weight, cleaned the house top to bottom every single day, and helped all the needy people in Pensacola, but didn't appreciate the people in my life, I would have failed.
This is our one shot - one opportunity. I want to wake up each morning expecting to make a difference where I am, who I am, and with what talents I naturally have to offer, in some one's life.
Well, it's that time of year again. You know, the time I sit down, think about where I am, where I want to be, and promptly come up with some off the wall plan on how I'm going to get there.
Okay, so I'm taking a different approach to my resolutions this year. Instead of saying I'm gonna lose more weight than the total body weight of a small child, save more money than I make in two years, or read my Bible through three times, I'm going to be realistic in my approach. Here we go:
1. Spend more quality time reading my Bible or doing my devotionals than I do now. I'm not saying I'm going to read more necessarily, but focus more on what I'm reading. It's not a contest. I don't think there's a point system that says "Wow, Kim read 4 chapters tonight and Suzie only read 2. Kim's clearly the winner". =)
2. Whether I lose a single pound or not, I will exercise more. I love boot camp class - okay, so not while I'm in it, but shortly after we're done - and I intend to pick up an interval running class as well. Once again - it's not a competition, but it's about me feeling like I'm doing something better for my overall health.
3. Have people over more often. I want to cook dinner for friends and family and just enjoy sharing life together in a real way. No pretenses, no expectations - just good company sharing good times.
4. Make a cleaning/yard schedule and stay on it - not at the expense of missing out with the people in my life, but so that we are able to spend more time relaxing in the end. I believe that being on a schedule actually frees you up to do other things.
5. Find ways to give back to my community - and get about proactively accomplishing that. After all, who doesn't feel better after giving back to someone with no thought for what you might get in return. There are plenty of people in need - and not just financially - and I might be the person who has something to offer them. To be honest, it will probably be a time or volunteer commitment over a monetary one, but that can be as valuable as money sometimes.
6. Last, but not least, take the time to really tell those around me how much they mean to me. After all, if I lost all the weight, cleaned the house top to bottom every single day, and helped all the needy people in Pensacola, but didn't appreciate the people in my life, I would have failed.
This is our one shot - one opportunity. I want to wake up each morning expecting to make a difference where I am, who I am, and with what talents I naturally have to offer, in some one's life.
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