Lunch - Chicken Parmesean
Dinner - Chicken and Rice
Three C's
Resolutions.
Last year about this time I posted my 2014 resolution: read more, talk less. By my standards, I succeeded. I read pretty consistently up until August, and I still talk a lot but I've learned to say less useless stuff (which is probably why I stopped blogging as much these last few months *chuckle, chuckle*). Overall, huge success with my 2014 resolution.
2015 resolution: Cultivate Core Community
Like that alliteration? I know, it's just the right amount of cheesy and the right amount of awesome.
What I've noticed is that I've been in a new city for 2 years now (so I guess it's not technically new anymore), and as an extrovert, I've succeeded in building community. I know people in this town, lots of them, and it's great because when I moved here I knew three. But the downfall of the extrovert (at least this one) is in drawing too much value and self worth from quantity over quality. How many people can I say hi to, not, how many people can I have a meaningful conversation with?
I went back to Florida for the holidays and was blessed to get to spend time with the majority of my lifelong best friends. But things were just different this time. Not in a bad way or a wrong way, but in a way that reaffirmed the unavoidable side effects of distance and time.
The body of Christ is a community, even Jesus had the 12 disciples. In other words, it's demonstrated biblically that humans were built for relationships; with God and with each other. I'm not saying you can force people to be your best friend (even though I'm secretly hoping the Titans draft Jameis Winston and we become BFFAEAE), but you can be more intentional about cultivating those core relationships.
I love my dog, a little too much. But, as much as I hate to admit it, a dog is not a person. So in 2015 I am committed to cultivating a core community.
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