“Create in me a clean, clean heart. Create in me a work of art. Create in me a miracle. Something real and something beautiful” -Rend Collective
It’s that time of year again! This is the time of year when everyone and their mother get a gym membership and everyone does a little bit of soul searching to identify the things about themselves that could use a little bit of improvement. Some people set goals to become healthier, and some people decide that it’s finally time to save money faster than they spend it. But why now? What’s so significant about a new year?
Well, it’s a new beginning.
For me, a new year isn’t about becoming someone new, but rather, it is about embracing the old and improving on it. Keeping this is mind, I have been pretty picky about my New Year’s resolution. It’s a resolution that won’t be broken in three weeks when the fad is over and the gyms clear out. It won’t be broken when I crave a bowl of ice cream or splurge a little bit on that new dress. This is a resolution that can’t be broken, and here it is:
To live colorfully.
That is my resolution. To live a life full of color, radiance, and inexplicable joy in which I become the fullest and most authentic version of myself. I want to become a well versed painting full of life, character, style, and beauty, but I do not just want to be colorful on my own. I want to be a mural composed of colorful handprints from the ones who have touched my heart and have made my painting worth living for. I want to learn the ways of every sort of artist within this wide expanse and adopt their style as my own. I want to learn and grow so that my life becomes a collage of moments that convey the magic that remains hidden from the naked eye. My heart yearns for the Lord to create in me a world of color, but above all else, I want Him to create in me a spirit that draws attention to Him and His love.
I want to be full of life and full of color.
Ecclesiastes 3:11 says that He has made everything beautiful in its time, and we can’t possibly fathom the plans that He has for us. This year, I want to better grasp the mentality that the Lord is creating in me a work of art. I want to understand more fully that He paints in my heart a picture more beautiful than I could begin to imagine. I want to wake up knowing that He is the Master Artist of my life, and ultimately, I want to become a work of art displaying not the work of my own hands, but the work of His.
This year holds a lot of new and exciting things for my life, and I am oh-so ready to see how the Lord uses these experiences to paint my ordinary life with the most beautiful colors.
So here’s to 2016, here’s to living colorfully, and here’s to letting the Greatest of Artists create in me a clean, clean heart and a work of art.
Happy New Year, everyone!
