Something the Lord has been showing me...

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth forever. -Psalm 111:10

My To-Do List For 2009...

These are in no particular order:

• Read the Bible chronologically in a year.


• Continue on working towards getting my B.A. in History through CollegePlus!


• Work on health/fitness plan and sticking with it. Fortunately I'm blessed to have a friend who is becoming a personal fitness trainer and has offered to help me with areas I need help in! Looking forward to this one!


• Travel to see Meredith! This is something I can hardly wait for and will be looking forward to meeting my lovely friend who seems more like a sister sometime this year!


• Attend the “Christians at the Crossroads” Conference.


• Read many books


• Make new friends.


• Journal more.


• Pray diligently for my future husband.


• Evangelize more.


• Serve others more. I think I found in 2008 that one of my biggest gifts is serving...so I plan to do a lot of that in 2009.


• Write more. I have a lot of essays that I will be writing for school but I hope to do some writing for pleasure such as: poems, stories, maybe that book that I started a looong time ago!


• Spend more time with family.


• Procrastinate less.

Twelve Books I Hope to Read in 2009

1.) The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews by: Peter Duffy

2.) Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer by: by James L. Swanson

3.) William Wilberforce: The Life of the Great Anti-Slave Trade Campaigner by: William Hague

4.) Set-Apart Femininity: God's Sacred Intent for Every Young Woman by: Leslie Ludy

5.) The Hiding Place by: Corrie Ten Boom

6.) Winston and Clementine: The Personal Letters of the Churchills by: Mary Soames

7.) Persuasion by: Jane Austen

8.) A Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus's Great Discovery to the War on Terror by: Larry Schweikart and Michael Patrick Allen

9.) Wives and Daughters by: Elizabeth Gaskell and Angus Easson

10.) A Man Called Peter: The Story of Peter Marshall by: Catherine Marshall

11.) What He Must Be: ...If He Wants to Marry My Daughter by: Voddie T. Baucham Jr.

12.) My Life for Yours: A Walk Through The Christian Home by: Douglas Wilson