Happy New Years Eve!

It is New Years Eve and we are enjoying a quiet night at home. Although it will take a few days to really settle into "normal" without my beloved family we are glad to be home.

Tonight our family made pizza, imitating two of our restaurant favourites; Chicken Caesar and Spicy Perogy and watched a movie - "How To Train a Dragon". Great Movie. Now we are just enjoying the quiet and will likely have a quiet countdown to the New Year.

The celebration of a new year is a funny thing. Really, it is just another day but it represents something so much more. It represents a fresh start and a new opportunity. For the past couple of years I have decided to memorize scripture throughout the year. It started out as an individual goal but then part way through the 2009 I came across the LPM blog - Living Proof Ministry Blog led by Beth Moore. They were doing scripture memory accountability on the blog. As some of you may remember from previous posts, I joined in. Tomorrow they are starting Siesta Scripture Memory again on the LPM blog. Although I did it last year partly alone, partly with my sister, I will be joining in again this year. I find the accountability both helpful and encouraging. I will leave the link to their blog here in case you are interested in joining too. Read the instructions Beth Moore leaves and see if this is something you feel you'd like commit to for the coming year.

Siesta Scripture Memory

If any of you are interested I'd love to know and to memorize along with you. I know it can be intimidating leaving a message on a blog but I do find the accountability makes me more disciplined; having an accountability partner can do the same thing. I believe that if we are committed to being a follower of God with our whole life that we need to have disciplines in place. Studying scripture and memorizing scripture are two ways that I am committed to. I will share more about this in the next week or so. With regards to scripture memory in particular it is a way that I can have God's Word in me to guide me and to convict me, to challenge my reactions and my thoughts and to help clothe myself in the life that Christ promises to those that believe in Him.

I will sign off now. My middle child seems to want to ring in the New Year by giving her parents a kiss as she has joined our lively party.

I'd love to memorize scripture with you this year. Please comment below or let me know if you want to take up this challenge with me.

Happy New Year!