Jump in to January...

Didn't jive.
Tried Fresh Start February.
Didn't fly.
Going for Make Over March.
5 days in....


New Years resolutions never work for me because I am still clinging to December, the tingly, happy, sparkly season of Joy. So, I never really get off the ground in January. I don't start new routines because I am lingering in the post holiday glow.

February sometimes is my January... I am craving routine after lounging for too long. Sometimes it works. It didn't this year. February just became gray and cluttery. (With the exception of a cheerful (most of the time) family and good celebrations.)

So, on to March. I need to get my life and home in order. I need plans, routines, structure, LISTS! I'm working on it.

While "working" (on Primary stuff for April) this morning I found one of my favorite songs on Youtube.


Here are the lyrics. They go with my fresh start, and my belief that I can have one. Every day. :)


1. Come, Thou Fount of every blessing,
Tune my heart to sing Thy grace;
Streams of mercy, never ceasing,
Call for songs of loudest praise.
Teach me some melodious sonnet,
Sung by flaming tongues above.
Praise the mount! I’m fixed upon it,
Mount of Thy redeeming love.

2. Here I raise my Ebenezer;
Hither by Thy help I’ve come;
And I hope, by Thy good pleasure,
Safely to arrive at home.
Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it,
Prone to leave the God I love;
Here's my heart, O take and seal it;
Seal it for Thy courts above.

3. Jesus sought me when a stranger,
Wandering from the fold of God;
He, to rescue me from danger,
Interposed His precious blood.
Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it,
Prone to leave the God I love;
Here's my heart, O take and seal it;
Seal it for Thy courts above.

4. O to grace how great a debtor
Daily I'm constrained to be!
Let Thy goodness, like a fetter,
Bind my wandering heart to Thee:
Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it,
Prone to leave the God I love;
Here's my heart, O take and seal it;
Seal it for Thy courts above .
(also, I should mention this version of the song is arranged by Mack Wilberg, it isn't the original. The history of the song on Wiki is really interesting.)

I might like this version from BYU combined choirs even better...