This last year has been tough and as the year draws to a close the natural process of reviewing has begun.

What am I grateful for? What do I want to change? I usually make a few resolutions, simple ones each year. Most of the time they are around health, relationship with God and people.

This year I think one simple one will do.

The year was tough, but we are all here and mostly sane, so I am very thankful. But the struggles have shown themselves on my waistline. When things have got difficult I have sort comfort and become comfortable. But it it not just my gut, it’s my thinking, praying, relating and leading that have all become a little weighed down with comfort.

So I resolve in 2014 to leave comfort behind and go for growth.