HAPPY NEW YEAR!
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This year I, __________________,
being of sound mind and body, do hereby promise to quit ______________
and _______________, and to take on the following good deeds: __________, ____________, _____________, and ____________.
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Have you thought what resolutions you’re going to make this year? I have provided this handy form for your personal use. Feel free to copy as many times as you need for the appropriate number of persons in your household!
Isn’t it amazing that, after over-eating, over-drinking, and over-merry-making during the holidays, we find the need to repent of such indulgences by the ritual of annual resolution making? Is it because we feel so guilty at having had such a good time that we feel the need for change? Or is it that New Year’s resolutions are such a part of our culture that we feel the need to keep this tradition alive? Or is it that we Christians, redeemed by the blood of Christ, know of our innate need to change our ways from time to time?
I’m sure that any responsible answer would admit to all three reasons. But there is much truth in our need to change our ways, given our new life in Christ. At least that’s how it is for me. I never seem to follow through on my New Year’s resolutions. But I am pretty good at keeping, for instance, any Lenten discipline I’ve taken on during that season of penitence. Somehow having Christ at the center of any change I make in my life seems to keep my focus in proper perspective. For I am making change, not for me nor anyone else, but for God. Would that I could bring God into my resolutions for the New Year!
This year I think I’ll try.
Wishing you all a blessed, Spirit-filled 2007!