I love ringing in the New Year. I love the feeling that accompanies the blank slate that is the countdown to the calendar change. It screams second chances. It feels freeing and challenging. It’s a day full of HOPE!
As this New Year settles upon all of us, I thought I would share some of my hopes for 2015. To tell you about some of the thoughts that have been stirring inside my heart for weeks now. You see I believe that 2015 is going to be a year again full of change for me. But for me to get where I need to get I must sacrifice like never before. I must have streamlined vision and most of all I must run my own race.
Maybe some of what I’ve been working through will inspire you during this New Year’s season as well.
So here’s my list of hopes, dreams and desires for 2015. As you will see it’s focused more around my feelings then it is any material achievements. Why? Because my feeling determine my outlook, my attitude, my health, and ultimately my success. I’ve got to feel right, to do right. It’s as simple as that. And when my feelings are top priority, I make good decisions for myself and for others. You can call it selfish; I call it self-awareness.
2015!
2015 Motto: Run Your Race!
2015 Word: Freedom
2015 Verse: Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us. Hebrews 12:1
2015 Desires:
I want to read more. I want to write more.
I wanna feel loved by friends.
I wanna feel accepted by God.
I wanna feel ok.
I wanna feel spontaneous, yet in control.
I wanna feel safe financially.
I wanna do more things with friends.
I want to hear more live music.
I want to travel, to make crazy great memories with new people.
I wanna feel challenged professionally.
I don’t want to feel lost, hurt or guilty.
I don’t want to feel envious or compare myself. But rather love others and celebrate alongside with them.
I don’t want pride to keep me from helping others.
I wanna express my vulnerabilities courageously.
I wanna reach out to people without concern of whether they will say yes or even answer.
But most of all I want to live free! Because I’ve only got one chance at this life and NOW must be my time. Today, this moment, this year. I want to wake up each day and yell go! Run your race Lance, live like you’ve got 27 days sober and the entire world is filled with color again and the air smells like freedom and people are new again and fear is vacant from your mind and doubt doesn’t exist in your vocabulary. Run! Sprint towards the finish and quit worrying. Gods never failed you and He’s not about to start now!
It’s time to live again!