- Content: Candace Cameron Bure Shares Her New Year’s Resolutions for 2023
By Movieguide® Contributor
Candace Cameron Bure recently chatted with brother Kirk Cameron on TAKEAWAYS about plans for the new year and what God has been speaking to her about this year.
“I’m not a resolution person because I feel like I always fail, that I never keep them. So instead, I guess it’s the same thing, but I will write some goals, but I don’t have the pressure that it’s I have to do this and I feel like that’s what a resolution is but I go ‘let’s put out some goals here,’” Bure said.
The FULLER HOUSE actress said that one of her goals is to be consistent with her fitness routine, although she admits that there have been “lulls” in the past.
“I love fitness and, and I love the challenge of it. But I have grace for myself when it’s just not there, that it’s okay if I’m not at the gym for a month or two, but I can always go back and I do,” Bure told Cameron.
Bure also wants to work on not only physical growth, but spiritual growth. Her and Kirk discussed the Biblical principle of “renewing our mind” specifically with the Word of God and scripture memory, which she confessed that she has found challenging.
“[S]ome people will say ‘But you memorize lines for a living,’ and I do and I can memorize very quickly. The problem is, I throw it out very quickly. Because whatever I say that day with lines, I don’t have to say it the next day so it leaves my brain,” Bure said.
As an actress, she has taken the concept of “Repetition. Repetition. repetition” for line memorization and applies it to scripture memory.
“I’m trying to put together some new practices so I can remember that,” she said.
She continued: “So it’s just a reminder that whatever scripture you want to memorize, whether you write it on a card, whether you put it up on your bathroom mirror, whether you’re opening up your Bible, and it’s there to read it, keep reading it every day, every day every day and you won’t, you won’t forget it.”
In addition to goals that she set for the year, she said she likes to have a word for the year or a scripture for that year as an encouragement throughout.
“God gave me my word in the last couple of days,” Bure said. “It’s ‘joy,’ And I know I’m a pretty joyful person, but in the deeper meaning when the Bible says, ‘Consider it pure joy my brothers and sisters for when you face trials of many kind,’ because those trials produce endurance and I want to endure because that endurance produces proven character.”
Candace emphasized the difference between joy and happiness on a previous episode of TAKEAWAYS.
“Happiness means that the external things around you are going well, and that can change at any moment,” she added. “So it’s important when we talk about it, to know that there are many days that I may be unhappy because the things going on around me might not be great, but I still have joy inside of me because joy is never dependent upon my circumstances.”
“The joy that I have as a believer and a Christian comes from God,” she said. “It’s knowing that I am at peace with Him, I’m justified before Him, He walks with me, His spirit is upon me… It’s knowing my future that’s in heaven, it’s having an eternal perspective. That’s where I find my joy when my circumstances are difficult.”
The busy mother of three is wanting to keep her priorities in check this year which she knows her family and God will help her do.
“My husband tells me slow down, in a very good way, he really does. You know, a lot of times God just speaks to my heart,” she said “I think as I have gotten older and every year and especially because of the last two years, I’ve learned to keep my priorities straight and I learned to balance them better.”
In addition to her partnership with GAF (Great American Family), Bure released a new devotional 100 Days of All Things New, which she posted on her Instagram is based on Revelation 21:5 that says “Behold I am making all things new” and is to help encourage believers in their “new identity in Christ.”
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