Happy new year! - Purposeful planning for 2013

Happy new year, everyone! Looking back over the last year, it was a good year. It was a very hard year, and I learned a lot of lessons. But in retrospect, it was still a good year, and I'm better for having lived through it.

I regret, however, that I didn't blog near as much as I would have liked. But, I normally only do it when I have a very strong inspiration. I will still be writing as such, but I also am going to develop a plan for some topics that I will be writing about. Many of them stem from my recent lessons in life.

Believe me when I say I don't have all the answers. I'm recently 18, single, and ready to push on and climb the mountain of adulthood. My new years resolutions include becoming fit, getting my ministerial license with the Nordic region of the UPCI, learning to drive, becoming an AIM, getting into University, and finding a job. Some of these I can complete pretty easily, but others, not so much. Getting a driving license here requires a bit of money, getting into university is difficult, and I need to read quite a few books, teach some Bible studies, and sit in a room full of people and be interrogated to get my ministerial license. Well, not really, but I'm told that they ask very difficult questions. So, these are my challenges, and I am completely confident that I will complete them.

Since I am currently in the mode of purposeful planning for the next year, I decided that it would be a good idea to make some plans about blogging. I had a recent conversation with a friend and we talked of some topics of which I should write. Keep your eyes open for when they show up, and we'll have a lovely ride. And if you'd like me to write about a topic, feel free to ask. I can't guarantee I'll write about it, but I just might. So, without further or do, the topics chosen so far are:

• Perspective
• What Christ is to you
• Positivity vs. Negativity
• Growth/moving forward
• Soulwinning

This is my year of purpose. I am preparing myself for the responsibilites that face me as an adult, as a grown woman, as a worker, as a one-day future wife, as a Christian, and as a minister. When my parents leave for the States to raise money for the work here, I will stay behind and work with our group, not only to maintain, but also to expand. Here I will create my home, and if God tells me to leave Finland, or I get married to someone from another country, only then I will leave. If not, here I will stay. Finland presents many challenges to me, and I look forward to facing them with God's help.

What are your resolutions? Will this be a year of purposeful planning for you, too?

Have a lovely day!