Inspired by my much better half, My Darling Bride has begun blogging about her personal goals for 2008.  Link to Darling Bride's Goals. 

She made a wise observation about some of our most important goals, such as Bible reading, prayer, eating well, and exercise:  We don't achieve these goals and stop, we keep going.  So, for 2008, I purpose to work through a Personal Mission Statement and Priorities that I've already written, and find specific ways to act on them and specific Bible verses to memorize about them.

Here's my Personal Mission Statement and Priorities:

I live dependently upon Jesus Christ and interdependently with others.

To that end, I prioritize:

I cultivate love and fellowship with God through listening to Him as I read His Bible, talking to Him in prayer, trusting in the person and work of Jesus Christ, living a Spirit filled life, and commitment to a local church, to the glory of God. 

I am a servant/leader of my household consistent with Biblical Principles.  To fulfill that calling from God:

• I joyfully love (my wife) and proactively fulfill our marriage and family covenant by serving and leading us according to God's Word, so that our marriage would model Christ's relationship to His Chruch, we would mutally complete one another to experience companionship, and we would multiply a Godly legacy.
• I also encourage and build up (my wife) to empower her goals of Biblical Womanhood and her relationships with God and others.
• (My wife) and I love (DS1, DD, and DS2), and we bring them up in the love, mercy, discipline, and instruction of the Lord, to provide a Godly family culture encouraging them to grow up discovering, nurturing, and fulfilling God's purposes and plans for each of their lives.

Regarding my vocation, I work at an elite level of excellence and high level of obedience that makes others around me better and calls attention to God.  Worthwhile work is:

• Serving God by serving and influencing others:  customers, coworkers, vendors, whomever God sends my way;
• A stewardship to create profitability for my company;
• A conduit of provding means for my family;
• A model of responsibility and diligence for my children, family, and others I influence;
• Access to the culture as an ambassador for Chirst.

We work together to be good stewards of the resources God has entrusted to us, fulfilling Biblical mandates for managing what we have.

I strive to overcome my task oriented tendenices by cultivating strong relationships between me and my extended family, friends, and circle of influence through encouraging, building up, being friendly, serving, and personal evangelism.

I take care of myself through persevering through trials, managing the events of my life well, physical fitness, seeking wisdom, and taking time for rest, relaxation, fun, and humor, so that I live a healthy and balanced life.