Wii Bowling with Andy Stanley

Everyone blathers on about resolutions for a couple weeks in the New Year. Typically, I give most of mine up for Lent. (actually, if they last that long it's something of a miracle...) I got Andy Stanley's The Principle of the Path for Christmas. His pithy, overarching vision statement for the book is "Direction, not intention, determines destination."

So I guess he's saying that my 'resolution' to lose my muffintop and be able to tuck my shirt in again is pretty much worthless if all I do for exercise is play Wii Bowling once a fortnight? Crud.

I have a love-hate thing with Andy. He's such an incredible communicator and astounding leader. The man's got more personal discipline in his ear lobe than I have in my whole being. That horks me off. But I realized that he's wired [way] differently than I am. So I've had to stop trying to be Andy Stanley (not that anyone's ever accused me of that).

But in reading his book, I realized that Andy not only is wired differently than me, but he has chosen to walk different paths than I have. Many of my journeys have been well-intended, but the path I've taken haven't match the desired destination.

So instead resolutions this New Year, I'm thinking about destinations, and the paths that actually take me in that direction.