Well, 2013 is wrapping up.  You can see how my New Year’s Resolution to blog every day went.  Two whopping posts.  But they were pretty nice, don’t you think?  I just got my 2013 blogging statistics, and despite my lack of new content, I still had 450 visitors from 26 countries.  It still boggles my mind that I can post here from my house and have someone read it on the other side of the planet within a few seconds.  Hopefully some of the things I posted have helped.  A lot of it is just fun things about our family.

Honestly, I don’t do new years resolutions.  I realized long ago I don’t have the capacity to become a new & improved person every year.  I normally try to avoid doing anything new on January 1st just because I don’t want people to think I’ve been sucked into doing some sort of resolution.

That being said, I want to do something new and special on January 1st, and I want to invite you to join with me.  This suggestion came to me from Mike Leake’s Borrowed Light blog.  I try not to send people to blogs I haven’t read (I don’t want to mislead anyone theologically if I can help it), but I got this from Tim Challies’ blog, and a post from today includes links to a Desiring God post that I just read.  Also, I am impressed by his “Dead Theologian 1 Year Challenge” post.  So at this point I trust it.

He has done a 31 day Pray for Your Wife and a 31 day Pray for Your Husband challenge in the past.  And for January 1st he will be leading a 31 Day Pray for Your Daughter Challenge.

I know that I need to be challenged to do this.  I pray too little too often, and with as many problems as we have with our One child, I tend to spend less time praying for my other children. I intend to do this, and I want you to help me be accountable.  Please comment with your thoughts and check in with me from time to time.  I plan to update later in January with how things are going.

There is a Facebook group you can join here, and if you aren’t on Facebook you can visit his blog for daily updates.  I encourage you to join in, even if you don’t have any daughters.  Pray for your daughter-in-law or a niece or a spouse.  If nothing else it will challenge you to specifically set time aside for prayer each and every day.  Nothing bad can come of that.