Writing Resolutions on January 4th

I am working on Resolutions tonight. I'll probably work on them tomorrow too. I missed the introspective, evaluating season at the end of December. I missed January first. So I am starting tonight, on the fourth.

I've learned that I perpetually suck at keeping rules. If writing resolutions is about adding more rules to my life, I am dooming myself to failure. There can't be one part of my life separate from Grace: no rules on the side. That's the only way I can make it.

I have to fight the tendency to add laws to my life. It's something I find myself falling into all the time. I also need to fight to embrace all of the grace of God, and that is where resolutions help. They come after grace, and lead me back to grace. Because resolutions aren't about what I've become, or failed to become; resolutions are about who I want to become.

So I'm starting on the fourth, because God's grace covers my omission on the first. I'm starting tonight so I know who to be on the fifth, and so I realize how much I need his grace