the sweetest thing in the world

Last night being the last FHE of the year

meant it was our

"bless and release" night

and

time for setting New Year Resolutions

In a nutshell, inspired by Amanda Dickson's talk at EFY 2008,

we write down the ridiculous things we've been hanging onto

for the past year

(people we can't change, situations making us crazy, etc)

take them outside, and as Bry lights them on fire

with his homemade blow torch

we watch them disappear and we

bless & release :)

Thankfully we had Trevor, Caci & Jace with us

and Trevor led us through our goal setting

He had us list 3 6-month goals

2 1-year goals

2 5-year goals

and 3 10-year goals

As overwhelming and daunting as some of those goals may seem, he told us to imagine one of those goals (the one that would have the most positive impact on our lives) being magically achieved over night.

This is the goal we circled.

Then on the other side of the paper we listed what we need to do to accomplish that one goal.

That goal is our aim.

Some of us shared some or all of our goals with each other

and this leads me to the

SWEETEST THING IN THE WORLD:

Brad shared only his circled goal

the one that would be the most joyous

and bring the most positive impact

this was it:

"help Denalee accomplish her goals"

I am blessed.