twentyten.

i have not yet had a reason to write out the new date but i am sure i will mess up doing so a bunch. i mean, we are so used to writing a "zero-something." now we have to write a "one-zero." it will take some getting used to. have you thought about what you'd call the year... besides "two thousand ten?" i decided to call it twentyten (along with, i am sure, a million others).

enough rambling. on to the resolution of course. most years i resolve to pick the age-old resolution of weight loss. and then kelly always proceeds to tell me that i don't need to lose any weight. but hey, i am female, and like the rest of you, i always want to lose weight. since i am prego this year, and the only weight loss that is going to occur will be after the babe is born, i actually have to come up with a different resolution. maybe it will actually be a meaningful one.

be it determined that i, carissa graham, am going to take a tight reign on my mind this year. lord willing and with His help!

"you keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you." -isaiah 26:3

"for the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot." -romans 8:7

"do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect."
-romans 12:2

"finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things."
-philippians 4:8

i want my mind to be fixed on Christ who is the same yesterday, today and forever, rather than the shifting seas of the world around me. i want to live in peace. i do not want my mind to be hostile to God; i want to be able to submit to His law. i want the Lord to transform me through the renewing of my mind through the Scriptures. i want to think only upon things that are true, honorable, pure, lovely, commendable, excellent, and praise-worthy.

this is a little prescription (from linda dillow's calm my anxious heart) that helps control my thoughts... i talk about it often:

-never allow yourself to complain about anything - not even the weather.
-never picture yourself in any other circumstances or someplace else.
-never compare your lot with another's.
-never allow yourself to wish this or that had been otherwise.
-never dwell on tomorrow - remember that tomorrow is God's, not ours.

cheers to resolutions and to actually keeping them!!!

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