I’ve done this for the past 2 years now:

My family and I have this tradition of posting our new years wishes and prayers in this cute little zen box. Every year I post what I wished the year before as promised. Here is the link for the past 2 years: http://bellavita5.tumblr.com/post/2557640415/every-new-year-my-family-and-i-have-this-goofy

Now you get to see what I wrote…. what I hoped would happen in 2011. Let’s see how I did.

It’s about time, girl.

2010 was spectacular. Let’s give 3 cheers for an epic 2011! I wish for compassionate, understanding and patient relationships in my life! I wish to find love, in everyone and everything. To recognize God in everything I encounter. I hope for a deeper conversion into my faith and understanding of what God has intended for me. I wish for new lessons and remembering old ones. To surrender my worries to God, to trust, to endure, to pray relentlessly and not grow weary. Some passages to remember:

Luke 9, 11, 12:22-34, 1 corinth 13:4-8, the beautitudes, matthew 7:7, and a lesson in Peter to love deeply for it covers a multitude of sins.

I wish for focus on my grades and my faith.I wish for rewarding discipleship mtgs and promotions at work. For health, wealth and happiness for my loved ones. For strength, wisdom and grace. To always respond to God’s love and hear his messages. To be open and receptive and trade my nothingness for his abundance. I wish for love to enter my life and sustain me. To cut the fat from my diet and my life.

To never lose sight of what I want, what’s best for me, the difference b/w the 2, and then be brave enough to get it. To leaving things in better conditions than which I found them, and to never do anything I wouldn’t sign my name to. I wish to travel to new places, to be safe, to inspire, to win favors and earn my ground.

-to keeping convictions

-to finding new ones

-to loving my neighbor

-to discipline

to the best kind of reckless

-to BELIEVING

-to authenticity

-to simplicity and stillness of the mind

-to relentless joy

-to hope

-to respecting yourself

-to healing in forgiveness

He loves you, ya know. Hope for the best in 2012. You’re becoming quite the somebody.

-D

Well…. I spent a big portion of my yr fighting discipline, love, and stillness of my mind… but I think they won out regardless. Time to write down 2012s wishes…

and ONTO DEBAUCHERY!