Am I flighty?

So I am thinking back through the many, many years of my life. Ok, so 30 BIG ONES and I guess that is what you are suppose to do at this point in your life. Take a look back at what you have "done" or "accomplished' and maybe even measure your life's worth on the success or failure of them.

I am not falling into that. I am not falling into a place where I measure my good verses my bad and then either TRY HARDER or CELEBRATE myself. Here is my outlook plain and simple:

The life I have lived, I have lived the best I knew how at the time. I loved hard, lost much, gained much more, celebrated, suffered, romanced, loved, hated, despised - I have felt every emotion known to man - have had friends come and go and stay - been lonely and ready to be alone - to simplify that - I have lived my first 30 years BIG.

That being said I do have to call attention to ONE attribute of my last 30 years that has been a repeated occurrence...my flightiness.

This manifests itself in so many ways but the one I have had the brain on recently is that I LOVE LOVE to start something and hardly ever finish.

Point made by my unfinished kitchen, bedroom and bathroom.

humm....kids...I won't give up on YOU though ;)

I have just noticed that I am not a "strong finisher" and I would like to work on that one in these next 30. I am usually the one FIRST out of the gate. You will definitely want to follow me as I talk BIG about whatever plan I have and I will make it sound like the best thing you will ever experience. I even want to follow ME when I get excited about something....then...shoot...I get flighty. Another BIG thing comes up and there I go up and leaving a perfectly great "thing" in the dust and launching myself headlong into yet another great "thing." Crap - and even as I type this many - MANY instances are popping into my head where this was the case.

So here I go with STOPPING THE FLIGHTINESS thing - which I HOPE is not a great "thing" I leave in the dust.

When I start something I WILL finish it, darn it. I am determined to not let these next 30 be marked with this and by the grace of GOD it won't.

In honor of THIS day my plan is as follows: (these HAVE to be accomplished in the next WEEK)

1. FINISH PAINTING MY CABINETS
2. FINISH PAINTING MY BEDROOM
3. FINISH THE CHRISTMAS STOCKING I WAS SEWING FOR ELIJAH FOR HIS FIRST CHRISTMAS!!!
4. PUT THE FINISHING SHELF UP IN THE DINING ROOM

There, I have said these things out loud and typed them. I see them in print...I WILL prevail in finishing these tasks.

Dang - and I am just knocked upside the head with an amazing reassurance right from Jesus - THANK GOD in the HEAVEN that He doesn't have the record I do for stopping something GREAT and not finishing it....look here!!!!

And I am certain that God, who began the good work within you, will continue his work until it is finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns. Phil 1:6

Gosh TRUTH lands sweetly on the heart...:)