My friend and I were talking about a goal he had accomplished. Just earlier in the day, a goal that he had set earlier (and written down) was accomplished. This prompted me to go back and look at my goals. I vaguely remembered going through the exercise at the beginning of the year, and to be honest, did not even remember what I had written down.
When I searched my notes and found my goals, I stood there almost dumbfounded. I had written down about 15 goals, and I had unknowingly accomplished 13 of them. I will reset the other two for next year.
As I was asking God for what to share this morning, I thought of my goals. It was a nice feeling, but it wasn’t until I got up to write in my personal journal that I realized what my topic would be. One of my goals was simply to write more. While I write to share, I hadn’t been writing much else. But this year to help me with my anxiety, I started one journal that was completed in 30 days, then moved to another. I started counting how many days I had written and stopped in the 40s, with still more pages to be counted.
I smiled once again.
Without even realizing what I was doing, I was writing. And writing A LOT more. One day, I may or may not share. Only God knows the purpose of those thoughts.
As we start waiting for the new year to arrive, what are your goals? I do not come up with resolutions on purpose. Those usually fall by the wayside within a month or two.
The very short, but powerful book of Habakkuk tells us to write things down and to make them plain so that anyone who reads them can understand.
Will you join me in writing your goals for 2020?
Dear Heavenly Father, I’m so grateful that your word has instructions for everything. Thank you for the simple instructions of writing things down – without that, I would not have been able to see all that I have set out to accomplish and actually accomplished through your grace. Father, please be in every plan that we write and try to attain.