New Year Just Do

First of all, sorry for my extremely delayed blog post. Much to the dismay of Kitty Lynn, we traveled the majority of December visiting residencies and family across the southeast. I feel like this is the first official week of the New Year for me.

I finally have started back with my internship, got a 2 to 3 day a week part time job and enrolled in my first online design course. I felt like now that I embraced 2011 mid January it was due time to discuss resolutions.

I have also begun training for the Mercedes half marathon again and I have about 5 weeks to go to race day. I currently have a 10 miler staring me in the face this weekend. As much as I dread these long runs I also enjoy them for several reasons. Often they push me, they allow me some time alone, I feel better or healthier after my runs, I get to check out the crazy fashion of Tuscaloosa co-eds (Uggs and Nike tempo shorts really??) and other times I just listen to upbeat music and zone out. But it was recently during one of my runs a verse popped into my head over and over again.

James 1:22 (New King James Version)
22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

I couldn’t shake the verse the whole run. In between a Ke$ha song and a Muse tune I did my best to meditate on what that means. Being a doer vs hearer and what that means to me in 2011.

According to the usa gov website here are the following top 10 resolutions.

* Drink Less Alcohol
* Get a Better Education
* Get a Better Job
* Get Fit
* Lose Weight
* Manage Debt
* Manage Stress
* Quit Smoking Now
* Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle
* Save Money
* Take a Trip
* Volunteer to Help Others

Notice a trend among the ten resolutions listed? They each start with a verb that requires action. Something that involves doing. Get, Lose, Manage, Quit, Go, Stop, etc…

I think I am guilty of being a hearer and not listener. Blake can attest to this. I think same goes for my spiritual life. I tend to be someone who hears but doesn’t do. I want to change that in 2011. I want to be a doer! I want this New Year to be about doing.

Redesign: So I never read Eat Pray Love nor did I see Julia Roberts eating, praying and loving across exotic parts of the world but I definitely saw the book cover everywhere. So with that same idea in mind I decided to recreate with my own version of: Run Pray Learn.

In 2011, I want to Run not only on the streets surrounding my home but into the arms of my Heavenly Father.

In 2011, I want to Pray. I want to fall at the feet of God not only for life’s big decisions but in my daily walk.

In 2011, I want to Learn not just about graphic design but about who the person of Christ is and how I can become more like Him.

So there are my resolutions. I will be a Doer not a Hearer. I will Run Pray Learn in 2011.

I got the great idea from this cute blogpost to frame my resolutions like she did. So I will be checking out Hobby Lobby in the near future for the perfect quirky frame for my faux book cover resolution.