It’s a New Year! It’s a New Day! What are we going to do to make it better than previous years? Each year, we make resolutions, promising to be a better person than in the past. We vow to live healthier, happier, and a little bit more prosperous. We promise to leave all negativity behind us, and to surround ourselves with much more positive people who will help us reach our goals. We do a great job of sticking to our newness—until it wears off around the end of January, if not before.
At some point, we lose our self-motivation and find ourselves right back into the same holes we thought we had climbed out of. One day of missing the gym turns into two…then a week…then a month, and before you know it, we no longer have a desire to go. Our healthy eating becomes chips, cookies, and fast food by February. Spiritually, our prayer time is replaced with worldly things such as television, social media, or the latest drama in the entertainment industry. It isn’t until the next year we think ab
