New Year, Renewed Goals

Happy New Year!  Can you believe it's 2013? 

The purpose of this blog is to chronicle my journey to getting my life clean, lean and serene.  It's simply what I'm doing.  The good, the bad and the oh so messy.  You're weclome follow along.  I hope you find inspiration here. 

I love New Year's Day because it give me the chance to start over.  A clean slate.  So with that in mind here are my renewed goals for the year:

• Deepen my faith and strengthen my relationship with God.  
• Strengthen my relationships with my family.
• Develop and maintain a healthy lifestyle.
• Get and keep my home clean and organized.
• Stretch my weekly budget using coupons.
• Develop a plan and prepare for emergencies.
• Complete at least 2 scrapbook layouts per week.

What are your goals?  B.

Daily Bible Study/Quiet Time

An item you will find on the Daily Check List of the Get It Together, Already Organizer/Cleaning Schedule is Bible Study/Quiet Time.  As the year goes along I will recommend various books, websites & ideas I find helpful in my spiritual journey. 

The first of these recommendations is this:

 I picked this up at the beginning of last year and have found it a wonderful resource to my daily study of God’s word.

I hope you find it helpful as well,

Britia

On the Serene Front . . .

Several years ago I was a Mary Kay consultant and the directors would often tell us, “Get your priorities straight.  God first, family second and career third.”  So I think that is where I need to start.  God first.  One of my yearly goals is to read the Bible daily and to read through the Bible in a year.  I have yet to achieve this goal, but it’s still a good goal.  At the end of last year in preparation for this goal I purchased “The Daily Bible.”  I really like this Bible, although, again I wasn’t able to achieve my goal.  I managed to read through to May 7^th before summer vacation started and all was lost.  But this is where I’m starting in order to make my life serene.  Yesterday, I began again with my daily Bible reading.  Instead of picking up where I left off on May 7^th and trying to catch up I gave myself a break and started on August 28^th.  I know my life will be more serene by spending time with God each day.  If you aren’t in God’s word daily then I encourage you to start.  It doesn’t matter where you start.  Just that you start.  And if you would like to read along with me then pick up a copy of this:

And start on today’s date.

Blessing, B.

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