Resolutions? How About Goals…And When God Speaks

I don’t really like to set Resolutions for the New Year. Mainly because I don’t like to set myself up for failure! And let’s get real here! Anyways, I am resorting to some goals per say for myself for this big 2012.

Here goes…

1. Continue to exercise (maybe a little more than I do now)

2. Set aside time for daily devotions/prayer. I have a 365 day devotional book, I just need to read it each day.

3. Stay on top of our house, by meaning keeping things in a more orderly fashion.

4. Try not to be so lazy in the evenings.

5. Learn to using a sewing machine.

6. Work on photography.

7. Be a better wife! (There’s always room for improvement!)

8. Give more, whether it be financially or my time.

9. Stay focused and organized at work.

10. Have a baby! (Ha!)

Do you have any resolutions goals for this year? What do you know you’ll get accomplished? What are you not sure about?

This past weekend in Sunday School I was reading aloud from this book

and the reflection part of this was about hearing God’s word and letting him speak. Well, as I was reading I started hearing a contact noise. We were in the old part of our church with old pipes and what-not and I honestly thought it was some pipe noise or the heat. Well after I finished there were some snickers and come to find out it was this rod iron cross on the wall. It wasn’t a noise I would have thought the cross would have made but a friend went up and touched it and it stopped. Um, wow. Powerful.

Today, as I was drying my hair I knew my hair dryer may have been on its way out. It sounded fine though but wasn’t operating at its fastest speed. Well, I’m just letting it do its thing and POOF this loud noise and it turned off and then I looked and it was BRIGHT ORANGE inside. Um, close call #1. It’s my worst nightmare (vain, I know) to have to go to work with wet hair. Like I don’t always have to look perfect everywhere, but work, I need to look good. I’m not one of those throw my hair in a pony tail type girls and go. (Cheers to you if you can!!) Anyways, I started panicking and looked through the cabinet and found an old travel hair dryer. Perfect…I thought. I plugged it in and it wouldn’t work. I thought maybe there was some plug problem so I tried another one and after messing with it for a bit it finally came on. Only the slow speed worked though. I have short hair, but at this speed it would have taken a week to finish it. I tried the fast one and each time I would try this AWFUL noise kept on and on and on and on some more. It got worse and eventually POOF out it went. HA! Close call #2. I turned the other one back and thankfully it worked long enough to finish out my hair but was BRIGHT ORANGE again when I finished. Dumb move I know.

I then go into the bedroom and turn on the light fixture. It starts flashing like off and on and off and on…Well, by this point I was so freaked out I felt like Jesus was going to appear and start talking to me!

I have often asked for signs before when saying a prayer. Was that a sign? Or am I crazy? HAA!!