New Year
New Years - sometimes seems like we wait for a new year to make a new change in our life. And why? What is significant about the first day in a calendar year to change your life? Why would you wait to make a change in something you only get one chance in? I hear all this talk about new years resolutions and I think - these people are wasting and being defeated the other 364 days of the year by waiting for one day to change their life.
Some people are planners, and I don't think I'll ever fail to plan - I'm way to anal for that, but I think there is a lesson to be learned every day and I'm not bright enough to know ahead of time what it's going to be. I have to take life as it comes and be ready to respond to what God does in my life. I want to learn to be more sensitive to God's Spirit in my life and more responsive to His direction. If that's a new years resolution then I'll take it, but that's been my "life-resolution" for the past 5 years of my life. So there's nothing anymore new about it on 1/1/06 than it was when I woke up 12/31/05.
I want to live by the promises of God, not by my own intuitive ways and predictions of what a year will bring. Ok, I'm just being cynical now... Guess it's past my bed time. Cheers all!
posted by Will at 3:07 AM
1 Comments:
perhaps you miss the point of resolutions. a reality of life is that it takes place in cycles. nature has seasons, we have years.
the coming of a new year gives us an opportunity to pause and evaluate. it's a manageable chunk of time that is large enough to be significant. it can tell us about who we are much better than a day, or a week or month. true, we can live our lives evaluating along the way, but if i evaluate the last hour of my life, what do i learn. if i look at the last year, i can see what is consistently developing in my life. some of that is good, some of that is not.
enter resolutions. i look at unhealthy patterns in my life, and try to make a change to replace them with healthy ones. it doesn't require january first to do this, but it seems like a good a day as any. maybe there's a more significant day you'd like to use. if you want, you can use my birthday;)
9:43 AM
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