New Year, New Start

I've never been big on New Year's resolutions. Never been able to keep them for more than a week, so honestly, I don't see the point. However, I do like something my mother told me: don't try take something away, but instead, add something to your life. That, I love. 

So this year that's what I'm doing. 

This year I'm adding (ideally) an hour of prayer/Bible/quite time with God to my mornings. This is especially hard for me because I love sleep! But, as I finally grasped from the brilliant Brian Sun up at NAU last year, just ask God for what you need. In our (me and my roommate Natalie Donald's) case, this was that God would make us nourished and revived from the few hours of sleep that we did get each night enough to function the next day. He still answers this prayer.

Although I haven't gotten my full hour in these past two days, it is something I am striving for even as the school year approaches. My hope is that this blog will act as a source of accountability for me. Please keep me in your prayers. I so deeply want to strengthen my relationship with God and be used by Him. But I know that I can't show others Christ through me if I don't truly know Him and His characteristics to begin with. 

Also, if you have faith-related questions, please ask! I would love to try to answer or to find the answers if I don't know them. 

Oh and be warned, I talk a lot. So this is a relatively short post for me! :)

Laura Elizabeth Emery (LEE)