New Year's Resolutions - Happy New Year!

New Year's Resolutions
I hope your New Year’s celebration was a good one. Ours was quiet. With the snowy roads, we were glad that we had gone out the night before! As usual, I was fast asleep when midnight came. I slept late today, our house is cleaned, I have the New Year's Day meal planned, our snow stopped, and the sun is out, the first bright sunlight we've seen in days, a day off of work, the new year of 2007 is starting good.

On this day, many think of “New Year’s Resolutions”. The New Year is a good time to “start fresh” (read my post below about that.) Yesterday’s message at church was about that, the scripture readings were from Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 (To everything there is a season), and Colossians 3:12-17. I know you are all familiar with the one about the seasons. Do you know the other? If you are thinking of making one or more resolutions for the New Year, taking the words from this scripture and striving to live these words each day would be a good goal. Taking the scripture from the translation, “The Message”* this is how it tells us we should strive to live our lives:
• With compassion
• Kindness
• Humility
• Quiet strength
• Discipline.
• Be even-tempered
• Content with second place
• Quick to forgive an offense
• Forgive as quickly and completely as the Master forgave you.
• Cultivate Thankfulness
• Wear Love. Regardless of what else you put on, wear love.
Love is your basic, all-purpose garment. Never be without it.
• Let the peace of Christ keep you in tune with each other, in step with each other

Looking at this scripture, I know that this was the model that my parents and grandparents strived to live up to, and model to us children. Instead of making resolutions about losing weight, being a better person, etc., my new year’s resolutions will be based on Colossians 3:12-17. Check it out for yourself.

Best wishes to you for the new year and for reaching whatever goals and resolutions you may make for yourself! Happy New Year!

*The Message is a translation of the Bible in contemporary language