Treasures: a map & a new journey

I've read many posts about picking a word for the year. I started this blog last year: treasuring your life. I have wanted that to be a theme. However, this week I really pondered what it would mean to study and write about "treasure" this year. I am excited about it.  

Today is a great day to introduce the theme and make the first post about studying treasure. Why? 

Charles and I are on a mini-vacay in Daytona Beach visiting his dad. Today we went to a tourist gift shop to look around.  We came out with two things: an awesome nautical watch and a 200 piece treasure map puzzle. We finished it much faster than the 1000 piece puzzle over Christmas with my family. Those 800 other pieces made a BIG difference.

Anyways, some of Florida's rich history is about pirates and treasure. A few years ago, I went through a whole pirate museum in St. Augustine. It was fascinating! I sometimes just think of pirates as fictional. Nope, they are real.

Pirates were all about treasure. They would live for it, search for it, fight for it, protect it, and even die for it. 

As I begin this journey for the year, I hope to learn what it means to truly live for the treasure I have that is life. Life with Jesus, life with amazing people, life with abounding blessings, life with transforming struggles, and life with eternal hope. 

So what do I treasure? Do I live for it, search for it, fight for it, protect it, and am  I willing to die for it?  Maybe dying for it sounds extreme, but I think even in a metaphorical since we must die to ourselves to let go of some of the things we treasure in place of the best treasures. 

So, let's think now of the people, places, things we treasure now. 

What do you hope to treasure more? What do you hope to treasure less?

Join me on this adventure. I don't have a printed treasure map of where we are headed, but I do have some leads.