What are my aspirations for 2017?  In past years, many of my goals would be things on my to-do list:  clean out closets, write another Bible study, etc.  Those are still things that I want to do, I really do, but my overriding goal this year is that I would live this prayer “not my list but yours be done.”  In the month of December, as I had many important tasks before me, more than I could do in my given time frame, I felt led to pray that I would do what is important to God.  I can’t say if I actually accomplished that or not, but I do know that God is shifting my attitude, my priorities.  I am slowly learning to enter the Sabbath rest of every day, allowing the time to be His, rather than first wanting to get through my to-do list.  I confess that as I’m sensing God leading me into this new place, I do not go easily; while I’m not exactly kicking and screaming in the process, I do feel my heels dug in and my fingers clinging to the door jamb.  And yet I am grateful to sink more deeply into His will for me.

…Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.  Matthew 6:9-10

… Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will.” Matthew 26:39

…I have come to do your will, my God.  Hebrews 10:7