I love Christmas time, I love New Year's and all that it signifies to me. However I often wonder if my experiences are uniquely mine or if other's share some of the same thoughts as I do. Every year I watch my friends make lists of New Year’s resolutions. They plan and strategize how their life is going to be different. And they seem to believe that because it is January 1st that their behaviors will magically change because the calendar says it is a New Year. I wish I could say this makes sense to me, but it does not. For some of my friends when they fail to be magically changed then they become even more distraught because they feel as though they failed.
Perhaps I am more traditional than I realize as I do believe in resolutions. However I believe in making them each and every day. I resolve to be a better mom then I was yesterday because I am aware of the distress my poor choices caused today. I resolve each morning to be the best employee that I can be, by choosing to set aside hurts, disappointments and frustration from yesterday and living today as it is. I resolve every day to find one person that I can serve so that I do not allow my ideals of my own importance to become supreme. I resolve every day to choose to try to serve the One who redeemed me better than I did yesterday, because as of yet, I am not a perfect (or even close) reflection of Him.
So as you set out at this point in the year, what are you choosing to do? What can you do today better than you did yesterday, last month, last year?
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