From the INSIDE OUT

So as 2011 approaches I am reflecting on the life changes I made in 2010. Pretty huge if I do say so myself. I knew in my heart that the changes I made in 2010 would definitely need followup 2011 if all fell into place..awwwwwww I love it when a plan comes together. Especially when its GOD's PLAN

In 2010 I started to really trust His plans for me. Not just in my own personal life but in the life of my marriage, children and family. I can honestly say I am blown away at the depth that each of those areas has reached in a short year. PRAISING GOD for for my family and "framily" that has been in this year. WOOHOO.

Trusting God to lead me in His ways and become new with His words hidden in my heart to pull out in times of trial. Obviously in order to hide His word I needed to be in HIS word. Fully embracing a life that He would have me to lead. I made some changes around me and have seen the benefits of living a life to call my own but only in HIM. WHEWWWW Now that I feel I am at another stepping stone on this journey there are physical changes that need to be made. YUCK

I mean who wants to think about resolutions on the 29th of December when there are fat filled NYEves parties to attend? Well I am with the help from my own personal Jillian.
Good thing I know this Jillian won't cuss at me or bring up my past to help motivate me. You won't will you? :)
I realized that as I was making some major changes inside I was feeding the anxiety that went along with change so now the outside reflects something I am not happy with at all. I want to feel great and be healthy. I want to keep up with my boys(will I ever achieve this?) I want to buy clothes and feel confident in them.
Now I am not training for a marathon or looking toward a class Reunion. I am however targeting spring and summer as the layers come off and more skin shows. I can't decide if I will be posting my successes on here or not. Maybe I will ..maybe just maybe that will give me more motivation to stick to it...although I don't think my Jillian will let me get unstuck. SHE IS HARD CORE!
For now I claim this verse for 2011- I want to live it out...walk it out....be IT
Romans 12:1 (The Message)
Romans 12
Place Your Life Before God 1-2
So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.


YES YES YES--don't you just love this version??

Will you walk along with me on some sort of renewing of your mind,heart, soul and body in 2011?? What are your plans? What are your dreams for this year? ARe you stuck? Let me encourage you to get over it and get over yourself...seriously I mean that in a loving Christian kind of a way. BE REAL--DEAL WITH IT--I promise you will be so much happier and so will those around you. I found that I will never be who God wants me to be untill I had to deal with getting over myself...that was hard I was good at it. I want my boys to live a life that is full of JESUS not full of this world. I want to help them grow into Godly men and in order to that I need to be the example....I need to set the stage and show my family I mean business in 2011.