Yesterday I offered some reflections. Today come resolutions.
For myself, 10 resolutions (and if you're a regular here, you've heard most of this from me before, unfortunately):
- Read more Scripture: specifically, read the whole Bible from cover to cover and then do it again/start journaling/schedule it all in so that it really happens
- Exercise more/Be serious about being healthy
- Eat better: specifically, take time every week to plan out my food for the whole week, not just make it up as I go along/drink more water less coffee/fast at least once in a while/fast from junk food all the time
- Take one of the empty bedrooms in my house and turn it into a home study, as a place to be in my house other than in bed or in front of the TV/ read more there
- Get rid of junk, downsize my collection of stuff
- Make more effort to be with my family and friends/entertain in my house sometimes
- Invest more in the people around me/learn from them too/spend more time visiting parishioners after Mass and in the cafe
- Be on the look out for people I can help (and help them)
- Finish the book
- Blog more
For the parish, 10 resolutions in absolutely no order at all (and you've never heard these before):
- Build a sidewalk through the woods between our driveway and Mars parking lot
- Expand the resources available in the cafe, maybe create a new space for resources
- Retool our staff meeting schedule
- Reorganize "back stage" to work better for weekend ministers & weekday workers
- Bring a delegation of church staff and parish leaders to Andy Stanley's Drive conference this year
- Host our first ever concert with Al Walsh and the House Band
- Expand weekend capacity at Nativity
- Expand capacity at the fairgrounds for Christmas Eve
- More flatscreens
Tomorrow, stayed tuned for predictions for 2011.
