A New Year

What will 2011 be for you?  Are you starting anything new in your family?  Plans on getting healthy?  Doing something you've never done before?

There are a few things I have in mind for 2011.  On Friday we are driving to Atlanta GA!  We are volunteering at the Passion Conference with our great friends Callie and Chris Smith.  We are leaving our kiddos at home with family and we will enjoy every minute!  We get to serve 20,000 college students reignite their passion for serving God.  So we will ring in the New Year in great company!

Our first goal for the year is to run a marathon!  We have been training since August to run this race and we have had a few hiccups in our training process.  I hurt my back a few days after running 6 mles.  Lesh hurt his foot shortly after running a half marathon.  My goal is to run a half marathon and Lesh's goal is the full.  I am back in running mode and ran 6 miles on Saturday and plan to run 8 this week! Yikes!  I pray my body holds up so I can complete the 13.1 miles I need to run!

Eating healthier is always a goal for Lesh and I.  It is the story of our lives! Ha!  We don't keep anything unhealthy in our home so really the goal would be to have portion control and also to eat less bread. 

I would love to wake up and read my Bible every morning too.  It is so important that I do this first thing because then I get busy and I neglect my time in the Word. 

Hopefully we will start trying for baby Richardson number two in the summer.  So as you can see there are many things I would like to accomplish in 2011!  The most important of all of these is intimacy with God.  My relationship with God is the most important thing.  Acts 17:24-28

²⁴ “The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by human hands. ²⁵ And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything. Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else. ²⁶ From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands. ²⁷ God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us. ²⁸ ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’

Happy New Year to you!