It's the start of a new year. I have never been a fan of New Year's resolutions. My life philosophy has always been to not put off until later what I can start today. So year round I work at doing the things in my life I need to do in order to get where I want to go or accomplish what I want to get done. But, there is an energy that comes with a new year, and the feeling of a clean slate. My hubby is feeling renewed energy toward making positive changes, so we are riding that wave right now.

I had two weeks off of work due to some surgery that my boss had before Christmas. It was a long two weeks on the road with my hubby. We visited both sides of the family and spend 6 wonderful days with the kiddos. Well, they were mostly wonderful. We battled a few illnesses and by the end of the two weeks, we were all ready to return to our normal, albeit crazy, schedule.

During our time off we discussed how life had gotten away from us in December and how we gave up on our eating plan we had been doing for the better part of a year. We realized that despite not having a church home in Bridgeport, we need to find spiritual connections with others, each other, and our own personal walk with the Lord. We reconfirmed how vital it is to look after our spiritual, physical, and emotional selves on a regular basis.

I'm not foolish enough to think that changes are going to happen over night or that we can make a blanket statement that something will happen every day. Our lives right now could never allow for that. But we are going to work on capturing those moments when we can do something to improve our physical, spiritual, or emotional selves. Like last night discovering we didn't have any activities and went to work out. Or this morning, when I had ten minutes before work and I read over the Verse of the Week (Psalm 1:1&2) from My Bridge Radio here in the Panhandle. Something to meditate on thorughout the day. Looking for those little spans of time to do something positive and not beat myself up when it doesn't happen all day, every day.

Today the sun is shining. The space heater at my feet is working. And that's a good place to be right now.