On the Friday before New Year’s Eve, we brought goal
worksheets to the table. Everyone had one at their place.
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Jim started the conversation by asking what we want to do in
the next year. Some things are obvious. Our senior in high school wants to
graduate and start college. Other things are less so.
We talked about spiritual goals. Several of us wanted to develop our prayer lives.
We talked about intellectual (for lack of a better word)
goals. Reading more books featured in this topic.
We talked about organizational goals. Oh my! There was lots
to do in this area!
Then we started writing. We put each goal in a different
color ink. (We were passing pens back and forth!) The corresponding steps to
reach the goal were in the matching ink color.
It was a good time to take inventory and think a little
about the coming year.
Last Christmas I knew I was going to become a grandmother
during 2011, so I told “the kids” (parents now!) that I wanted to do a cross
stitch advent calendar for devotions like I had done for my children and we
still use every year. (I explain ours in the book.) Knowing how long it would take, I told them it would be
for the baby’s second Christmas!
I sat down with them to design it they way they wanted. They
had some ideas of what passages and pictures they wanted included. Then my work
began of finding patterns and actually cross stitching. In January we went to
Colombia for 3 weeks and I spent a lot of time on it. Since then, not so much.
So one of my goals is to finish that, hopefully in time for
them to use it next year! (I can’t put a picture up—it’s all a surprise.)
What did you and your family talk about around the table
this past week? Please tell me in a comment below.
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ReplyDeleteSitting down as a family and talking about goals is a really good idea. I think I'm going to sit mine down and try to have a talk. Of course, my son is 4 so I might have to dig the goals out of him...lol.
Michelle,
ReplyDeleteGlad you like the idea! It's great to start when he's so young and train him up to think that way. It will give him the necessary tools for when he's older.
Sharon
Sharon, I am really enjoying this blog , I have already been enjoying it ! For many years now we have known each other and you truly inspire me and you a great godly woman. Sitting down as a family "around the table " is always not so easy, even when you live on a small island it still is a challenge sometimes. So I am really gonna find more time to come on here and lern from you <3
ReplyDeleteCeleste,
ReplyDeleteThanks so much. I am not "great" and do aspire to "godly" but God's still working on me there. I hope I can help and encourage you and your family. That's my goal. Please pray for this ministry when you think of it.
Sharon