.....and more about me.............

This questionnaire was handed to me at church at the beginning of the month.

Ten questions to ask at the start of the new year.

Once when the people of God had become careless in their relationship with Him, the lord rebuked them through the prophet Haggai. "Consider your ways!" (Haggai 1:5) he declared, urging them to reflect on some of the things happening to them, and to evaluate their slipshod spirituality in light of what God told them.
Even those most faithful to God occasionally need to pause & think about the direction of their lives. It's easy to bump along from one busy week to another without ever stopping to ponder where we're going & where we should be going.
The beginning of a new year is an ideal time to stop, look up, and get our bearings. To that end, here are some questions to ask prayerfully in the presence of God.

1. What's one thing you could do this year to increase your enjoyment of God? See people through his eyes, not my sometimes cynical eyes.
2. What's the most humanly impossible thing you will ask God to do this year? Have mercy on my sister.....& my heart.
3. What's the single most important thing you could do to improve the quality of your family life this year? Spent time individually with each guy.
4. In which spiritual discipline do you most want to make progress this year, and what will you do about it? Consistently reading God's word...alone.
5. What is the single biggest time-waster in your life, and what will you do about it this year? Surfing the web...set a timer.
6. What is the most helpful new way you could strengthen your church? Be true to God.
7. For whose salvation will you pray most fervently this year? Chloe, Jacob, Dante & Eric's new bundle.
8. What's the most important way you will, by God's grace, try to make this year different from last year? Work on building up our immune systems so we aren't continually sick.
9. What one thing could you do to improve your prayer life this year? Write down thoughts as they pop up to trigger my memory. Create a prayer board.
10. What single thing that you plan to do this year will matter most in ten years? In eternity? Making good memories with my family. Building a legacy.

In Addition to these ten questions, here are twenty-one more to help you "Consider your ways". Think on the entire list at one sitting, or answer one question each day for a month.

1. What's the most important decision you need to make this year? To have the surgery or let it go..
2. What area of your life most needs simplifying, and what's one way you could simplify in that area.My curriculum choices, release.
3. What's the most important need you feel burdened to meet this year? Overcome my fears
4. What habit would you most like to establish this year? Exercising (daily)
5. Who do you most want to encourage this year? My sons**shoot for the stars**
6. What is your most important financial goal this year, and what is the most important step you can take toward achieving it? Hire an employee for VCC, buy a house & buy a car...discuss, seek wise counsel, save money, evaluate cause & effect.
7. What's the single most important thing you could do to improve the quality of your work life this year? Buy a new laptop & a computerized transcript program
8. What's one way you could be a blessing to others this year? Let them know...use words
9. What's one thing you could do this year to enrich the spiritual legacy you will leave to your children and grandchildren? Study my children & minister to their specific needs. Use Gods words to guide my steps.
10. What book, in addition to the Bible, do you want to seek most earnestly this year? Oh, I have a huge list, much too long. There are too many great books, I won't commit to just one. I do have a list though.
11. What thing do you most regret about last year, and what will you do about it this year? The way our relationship with Bonner & Hannah went down. We will pray for them.
12. What single blessing from God do you want to seek most earnestly this year? That he preform a miracle of fertility for Jeff & I.
13. In what area of your life do you most need growth, and what will you do about it this year?Patience with teenagers. Talk to others, read inspiring books & bite my tongue.
14. What's the most important trip you want to make this year? The (CHEA) Long Beach Homeschoool Convention to be inspired & rejuvenated for this journey
15. What skill do you most want to learn or improve this year?To sand & refinish furniture without Jeffs help.
16. To what need or ministry will you try to give an unprecedented amount this year? Consistent Hospitality
17. What's the single most important thing you could do to improve the quality of your commute this year? Invest in lectures on tape/CD & educational DVD's to insure school time takes place.
18. What one biblical doctrine do you want to understand better this year, and what will you do about it? The problem with astrology & the gospel in the stars. I will confirm my faith & gain depth of wisdom.
19. If those who know you best gave you one piece of advice, what would they say? Would they be right? What will you do about it? They would say I could do whatever I put my mind to & they would be right. I will take the plunge.
20. What's the most important new item you want to buy this year? Pet safety and quality products(An outdoor dog kennel/run with a top & an outdoor bunny play yard.
21. In what area of your life do you most need change, and what will you do about it this year?Conquer my fears. I will exhale & jump in.