2011 Is Here!

Wow, guys! It's 2011 already!
I remember sitting here a year ago with my wonderful family, making New Year's Resolutions, and looking forward to my senior year ending, and my first year of college starting. A year later, I'm sitting here a high school graduate, a sophomore in college (hour-wise) and someone who has been drawn closer to God throughout everything in my life.

So. What's next?
Well, to start off with, I refuse to make New Year's Resolutions. All it does is make you feel guilty because you've held yourself to a standard impossible to reach. As I read in Evan's blog (this really stuck with me, apparently) "Make an educated guess. Be wrong. THEN be awesome." So, this year, through myoneword.org, I give myself permission to be wrong. To make mistakes. To screw up. To fail as epically as possible, allow God to use my failure for His glory. My word this year is "care".

What does that look like?
Well, in my mind, it looks like someone who cares about others, their successes and failures, their needs and wants, their pain and joys; someone who cares about myself, about taking care of myself physically, emotionally, and most of all spiritually. But most of all, caring means being more connected with God by caring more about what He wants than what I want, by seeing this world as an extension of His kingdom instead of my own. Hopefully, God willing, by the end of this year, I'll be someone who can say I was caring towards others, caring towards myself, caring towards school, and caring towards God.

Also, I'm going to attempt to blog more frequently. :)

Yours,
Kayla
"We do not need to write to you about having love for your Christian family, because God as already taught you to love each other." 1 Thessalonians 4:9