Freedom

Last year I found what I called my "life verse." 

2 Corinthians 3:17 -- 

Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. 

And when thinking about my one word of the year for 2014, I knew that was what I wanted to live by. 

FREEDOM. 

I generally have a list of things to work on for the year... Like eat less crap, stretch every night, complain less, do more nice things, be less selfish, etc etc. 

But this year is different. 

While I know all those things are good and I should work on them (and knowing me, I will), this year I'm going to focus more on my relationship with God and less on the works I need to do to (stupidly try to) "earn His love."

My goals this year are...

To learn how to live in the freedom of God's grace. To not be tied down by my past but fully accept forgiveness. 

To live without regrets and freely love everyone. (I may have made a butt-load of stupid mistakes, but I've learned from them all. While I'm not going to go around purposefully making bad choices,) I need to learn to not live in the past but freely accept share Gods love with no fear. 

 To direct my life so I can become in tune with the spirit. to live by his movement not my stupid plans. 

The message version of verses 17 and 18 exemplify what I want from this year...

And when God is personally present, a living Spirit, that old, constricting legislation is recognized as obsolete. We’re free of it! All of us! Nothing between us and God, our faces shining with the brightness of his face. And so we are transfigured much like the Messiah, our lives gradually becoming brighter and more beautiful as God enters our lives and we become like him. 

May this year be the one where I "gradually become brighter and more beautiful as God enters my life."

<3jen