Entering a New Year

The start of a New Year is exciting, so many new things to look forward too, new experiences, new friends to meet, new opportunities to take hold of.  
The start of a New Year can also be a little bit daunting, especially if the year that has just finished has been a hard one.

You could be walking into this New Year weighed down with what has gone on the previous year. Dragging yourself reluctantly into the year wondering how you are even going to find the energy to ride out another year.  Just making it through this week is going to be a major accomplishment.
 

I am looking forward to this New Year, I am leaning forward with excitement and anticipation for what God has for me this year. Eagerly awaiting the challenges and new things that I am going to accomplish and achieve this year and the reason is …. I have taken the pressure off myself.
 

I have finally (at this point anyway), given myself a break, this is not to say that this year I will be cruising because honestly I believe this year is going to be my busiest one yet. The reason I am straining forward into this year instead of dragging myself kicking and screaming is because I have stopped multi-tasking.
 

Sounds weird I know, multi-tasking is something us women are just good at (well some of us).
We find it pretty easy to have 10 balls in the air at the same time and still get the dishes done, kids to bed and keep our husbands organised. Self-confessed control freak here, but at the end of last year, God was really on my case about multi-tasking.

The message that was coming through was “just concentrate on the one thing,” the one thing God is asking me to do.

We think we are so productive and we can be, but in reality we can also be ignoring the one thing that God is asking us to do, to deal with, to start, to finish… are we just too busy being busy?
 

Psalm 46:10 - “Be still and know that I am God.”
 

This year if you are dragging yourself into the New Year, I encourage you to be still and spend some time with God, ask Him what the “one thing” He wants you to concentrate on is and then do that.

Un-complicate things, stop multi-tasking, take the pressure off and move into this year with a sense of achievement, of accomplishment, with a goal that is achievable and may God bless you richly as you do the “one thing.”
 

Happy New Year.