New Years Resolutions are taboo...

and I usually don't make them since "the man" tells us to make them, and I am a little rebellious. But this year I am making some. I really need to get in shape and lose some weight. I have been just about to start Yoga for like 5 months. I bought a DVD player for the sole reason of doing Yoga. I have turned on my DVD player once and it was to watch Emma and not do Yoga. So Yoga is number 1 on the list. Also, I used to be really good at mailing letters to friends. I am so bad at this. I bought my friend Deanna's daughter the cutest outfit that I never sent and that she has already outgrown, sorry De. I mean that is pitiful. I used to write these beautiful letter and send the cutest cards, I mean who doesn't like mail, the real mail that comes written on paper by hand. My third and final resolution is to read my Bible more. I have to say that I am getting better at this, but there is always room to grow.
I think resolutions are good if they are productive. I mean resolutions are really just goals and everyone needs goals.
So what are your resolutions?

I am the Tree

This is such an amazing article!!! BWC : The Reject Tree

Finding Christmas

I think working in retail has made me realize what Christmas really is and what we as a culture have turned it in too. I think without working in retail for so many Christmas seasons it would be fine and dandy to go to the mall and do Christmas shopping, and sit and have a chai latte and a muffin, enjoy the Christmas music over the speaker and laugh as the children pull Santa's beard. But if you work at the mall you get a whole different perspective.
Today I saw the shipment of Easter books that has come in. Yes, I said Easter. Jesus hasn't even been born and we are already mourning his death and celebrating his Resurrection. Seeing Christmas stuff since August kind of makes you immune to the season. You forget it's Christmas until your mom calls you to make plans for Christmas dinner.
After a few years of this I think I have disassociated Christmas with red and green and Santa Claus. I have become cynical and find all of that to be ways to suck my hard earned dollar out of my wallet. Instead I find Christ in Christmas. Imagine that. Really, I have made myself stop and slow down and think about what the birth of the Savior means to me and the rest of the world. I think of the Joy, Peace, Hope and Love Jesus brings to me. And I say thank you.

Leaning in

I am Leaning in
holding on to the unseen
wrapping myself around you
waiting

I am Leaning in
remembering your birth
and the hope you bring
thankful

I am Leaning in
listening to your whispers
feeling your presence
now

I am Leaning in
hopeful for your coming
living in the kingdom
today