Big/Little

 Proverbs 21:5 "The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness but of everyone who is hasty only to want."

I have learned it takes time to live. Yes, I look back on my life and it has passed so quickly.. my only connection with yesterday is my memories. My connection with tomorrow is my dreams!!  I've lived a full life. Still got some time to go, it seems.

Many wishes for the New Year are that we have a "prosperous" year.  It sounds good. We mostly think of prosperity as being connected with financial security. The definition I like best is "in a thriving condition". The word "thriving " means to succeed, flourish, to progress towards a goal despite the circumstances.

My verse for this New Year and my prescription for prosperity is Philippians 4:12, "I know both how to be abased and I know how to abound: everywhere and in all things. I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need."

One way I have of illustrating my thoughts is this. Several years ago, when moving to Missouri, my husband and I downsized considerably. We have lived in a little abode we built customized to our needs. We have been content there. 

Recently, we have been living part time in Oklahoma in a dwelling that would encompass several of our little houses. 

It messes with my mind a little. Going back and forth. Tiny for a week; big next week.

But you know what? I'm living life both places. Putting in time. Choosing sad or happy. Making positive choices or deciding changes aren't what I like. So I choose to " feel closed in" in my tiny house or "cozy", which I try to always choose. I can be overwhelmed at the square footage in the big house or take advantage and get my two miles of walking in per day!!!! I am also choosing that instead of the outside exercise in 19 degrees! 

So my New Year's resolution, if you want to call it that, is to "progress toward a goal despite the circumstances". To keep doing the "big/little thing" . To learn how to be hungry and to be full. To do this like the Philippians writer "everywhere and in all things". 

It's a good challenge and I think will be a hard one.  I'm so glad I don't know what the New Year holds for me. I would be questioning my endurance resolution right now.  

I want  to be Proverbs "diligent". That will get me to the end of my journey in 2017.  But if I am "hasty " , which I tend to be, I will certainly come up short of my December 31 goal. 

Here's to my "Big/Little Prosperity" Challenge. I need a whole lot of help, Lord!!!!!!