No Resolutions for this guy, Nope.

December 30, 2009

It’s six o’clock in the morning. The house is quiet. In less than an hour everyone will be running around, grabbing breakfast, packing ski’s and snowboards into the car and we will be on our way to Timberline for a day of skiing.

Random thoughts find their way into my head as I look outside at the snow blanketed golf course just outside the windows of our home at Mount Hood. A lot has happened this past year. My wife and I started a new business, our life became one of relying more on God than a job and I will never look at work the same way again.

I still worry. I try not to but came from a family that taught me worry was what you do to try and gain control when you know deep down inside that you have none. I’m getting better but still fight the urge to play “The Worry Game.”

I will not do a New Years Resolution. I think they are a waste of time. I will resist the temptation to make a vow of change because I’m not sure God really wants us to make “Vows” instead I will try to listen to God more carefully and thoughtfully.

I will refuse to ride on the guilt trip express but will instead allow God to use the past to hopefully prevent me from making the same mistakes in 2010 that I made in 2009 and 2008. New mistakes are so much more adventurous and more interesting.

Life is so interesting. Change is so scary and yet refreshing at the same time. I need another cup of coffee but worry it will make me have to pee when I get out on the ski runs. See, there I go worrying about something I can do little about. Heck, I’m going to drink another cup cause I want to…that’s why God created trees.

Have a nice day.

Rick