Me and God don't see eye to eye...

True enough, most times, most days, God and I aren't on the same page.  I think I want the same thing as God wants, but then soon enough I realize that I only wanted him to want what I did.

Most times, I'm looking for outward signs, while God primarily is concerned with what's on the inside...

Case in point - the food drive.

Now, yes, I believe that I am supposed to host the food drive...So far God and I agree there.  Where we might part ways is our view of success.

I would see the success of the food drive as the boxes being over flowing with food and other donations - boy wouldn't that make me feel great!

However, what God's view of a successful food drive might be different, deeper than that, and just because I can't see it, might never see it, doesn't mean I didn't do what I was supposed to do - just means I don't have the right eyes to see it...or it wasn't meant for me to see, at least not yet.

Very hard to do...since we are such an externally measuring society...but God doesn't care what society thinks, or how society measures success - for that we should be thankful!

Last thing I would want, is a God that bows to popular opinion, or measure success the way we do.

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'Tis the season of resolutions!

Even if you haven't made a resolution list you might like to make an "Accomplishments" list.

The Better Half thought of this on New Years eve as we thought about what we would like to do, or change for 2010. She thought that instead of focusing on what we though we should change, we should focus on (and be thankful and grateful) for what we had accomplished/changed during the past year.

Of course we had our big one: quit smoking.

and the list went on from there. By the time we were done we had about 15 accomplishments each...big and small, but all valuable nonetheless.

As they say, success breeds success, so we figured by seeing our 2009 successes that it would help out with our 2010 ones!