Entering a Year With Questions
Another Day Along the Way
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Another day,
Another year ends. A year of war, debt, conflict, confusion, election, debate, and death. A year of worry and wonder. A year of tears and laughter. A year of uncertainty.
Another year begins. A year of questions. Today - instead of letting the common questions arise and guide our thoughts - let's ask ourselves questions we often fail to address. Picking our own questions and responding with honest answers gives us a chance to live a new year as we should. No matter what happens in the job market, housing market, or financial market, we can choose to live better lives this year. Allow the questions to lure us toward an adventure of wonder in 2009.
What dreams have you kept hidden for too long?
What is stopping you from pursuing and fulfilling those dreams?
What can you bring to the table of life than no one else can bring?
How can you bring it to the table in a way that others are likely to receive it?
What bad habits have lived long enough?
What good habits should come alive?
Who do you need to forgive?
Who needs to hear an apology from you?
Who is learning from you?
What are they learning?
What spiritual disciplines have you neglected for too long?
How can you be more honest with God this year?
What doors should you close?
What doors should you open?
What giant should you throw a rock toward to bring death?
What sea should you cross to enter a new land of promise?
What death should you experience so new life will come?
Questions, questions, questions. Ask them. Answer them honestly. And take action. If we do, and if we receive the help of our Holy Guide, the world should beware. Things will never be the same because we are choosing to no longer be the same.
Let the new year truly be that. New.
Along the way,
Chris Maxwell
Powerful Statement: Take a walk through God's gallery with your eyes and heart wide open. Let your journey lead you toward worshipping the Artist behind it all.
(Wonderlust: A Spiritual Travelogue for the Adventurous Soul, Vicki Kuyper)
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Another day,
Another year ends. A year of war, debt, conflict, confusion, election, debate, and death. A year of worry and wonder. A year of tears and laughter. A year of uncertainty.
Another year begins. A year of questions. Today - instead of letting the common questions arise and guide our thoughts - let's ask ourselves questions we often fail to address. Picking our own questions and responding with honest answers gives us a chance to live a new year as we should. No matter what happens in the job market, housing market, or financial market, we can choose to live better lives this year. Allow the questions to lure us toward an adventure of wonder in 2009.
What dreams have you kept hidden for too long?
What is stopping you from pursuing and fulfilling those dreams?
What can you bring to the table of life than no one else can bring?
How can you bring it to the table in a way that others are likely to receive it?
What bad habits have lived long enough?
What good habits should come alive?
Who do you need to forgive?
Who needs to hear an apology from you?
Who is learning from you?
What are they learning?
What spiritual disciplines have you neglected for too long?
How can you be more honest with God this year?
What doors should you close?
What doors should you open?
What giant should you throw a rock toward to bring death?
What sea should you cross to enter a new land of promise?
What death should you experience so new life will come?
Questions, questions, questions. Ask them. Answer them honestly. And take action. If we do, and if we receive the help of our Holy Guide, the world should beware. Things will never be the same because we are choosing to no longer be the same.
Let the new year truly be that. New.
Along the way,
Chris Maxwell
Powerful Statement: Take a walk through God's gallery with your eyes and heart wide open. Let your journey lead you toward worshipping the Artist behind it all.
(Wonderlust: A Spiritual Travelogue for the Adventurous Soul, Vicki Kuyper)
