Happy New Year!

Looking forward to the New Year together.

It turns out that the word "discipline" translates to less time on the blog this week. Between planning the workouts and menus for my Body for Life challenge and taking orders from the FlyLady, not to mention school starting up again, I haven't had a chance to say,

"HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!"

Whew, okay, I can cross that off my list. :-)

Remember my mentioning the book, The Disciplined Life? Here's a thought-provoking passage I came across:

"All of us are confronted by a bewildering multiplicity of claims upon our time, talent, money, and loyalties. The claims are not only legion, but loud and insistent. To attempt to satisfy even half of them would result in frittering life away to nothingness. If life with us is to be fruitful and purposeful, we must heroically and decisively put the knife to most of the possible activities which could clutter every single day.

"Selection--selection--selection! This is the law of life. We cannot join everything; therefore we must select. We cannot participate in every good cause; therefore we must select. We cannot give to everything; therefore we must select. We cannot go to every interesting concert or lecture or meeting; therefore we must select. We cannot read everything; therefore we must select.

"To become well read is vastly more than reading; it is a matter of exclusion as well as inclusion. President Case of Boston University once said: 'If you want to be a specialist in New Testament literature, you must say goodbye to the comics forever.' And to a lot of other reading too! Whatever one's goal may be, it can be achieved only by the sacrifice of the lesser. This requires discipline of a high order."

Can I put my finger in my ears about the part that says I cannot read everything, therefore I must select? Hmmm....I think the Lord knew what He was doing when He assigned me this word for the year. :-)

My camera and lenses are back! I will put her through her paces and post a shot or two soon.

For all my Hawaiian friends: "Hauoli Makahiki Hou!"

"Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ." Philippians 3:8