Reflecting & Resolving.

2011 was a weird year. Looking back it seems like a terribly great year. 

Terrible because of the ridiculous amount of growth that took place. Everyone knows growing hurts. This year was one for the record books. I am extremely stubborn, so growing is always so painfully drawn out. 

And 2011 was great because of all that growth. 

I spent the last minute remembering where I was last year in the last minute of 2010. I was physically in a different place, but more importantly my heart and my head were in a completely different place. I brought in 2011 with a desperate heart and lacking faith. I spent the spring trying to grow apart from expectations others had placed on my life, and into whatever God had made me to be. I spent the summer struggling with independence and what it looks like to enjoy being alone. The fall was spent trying to understand why my heart and brain work the way they do. I never imagined so much could happen to my heart in one year.  

I rung this new year in with a quaint optimism, and with a heart a little less like concrete. I'm no where close to being all grown up, but I am beginning to see myself as a bit more of an individual/ adult. 

So, in 2012, I resolve to:

1. Cut out dairy. 

             (You see, I've cut out milk but the rest needs to go in order to keep my esophagus happy)

2. Write enough songs to record an EP. (& get some time in the studio THIS year)

3. Spend quality time traveling and seeing new parts of the world. 

4. Enjoy the alone time I get instead of squandering it watching television or on facebook. 

5. Read 5 books. (Starting with the ones I was gifted Christmas)

6. Dream a little more. (This was a resolution last year that I met, but need to continue.)

7. Be happy with where I am, and if I'm not then to get the heck out as quickly as possible. 

So there's my 7, a little more specific than 2011 but still good. 

Now is the fun part, following-through.

Daddy always said the most important part of the shot was following-through. 

(Even though he was yammering about basketball, I'm sure, in this case, it's just as important)

-Wishing you the best possible 2012-