Happy New Year! Every Dec 31, we mourn the passing of old Father time and we celebrate the birth of Baby New Year as we anticipate the potential for growth and development moving into the new year. We make New Year's resolutions, we plan out our future holidays, birthdays...and basically decide how we will be spending the brand new year, resolving to make it a better year than the last. We walk in with an attitude of HOPE and CHANGE. Hope for a better future and change of self.
I like new year's resolutions the best because for me it involves planning. I pan to to lose weight, so this is my resolution. I plan to get out of debt, or I plan to be a better person and these are the steps I plan on taking in order to make this happen. But how many of us actually follow the plan that we set out for ourselves? I honestly have to say that last year was the first year of at least a decade of broken new years' resolutions that I actually kept the one new year's resolution that I made at the beginning of 2010. I resolved to lose weight but I resolved NOT to go on a diet...ha! I lost 35 pounds. How did I do that? I HOPED and I CHANGED but most importantly I had FAITH. I hoped for a change in my life, I prayed on it and had faith that with God it would happen. I changed the foods that I ate. I basically only ate the foods from Extreme Pita. Oh I traveled across the menu my friends and had a party. I tricked my mind by not calling it a diet and I prayed not to snack past seven p.m. because that is important. Why is that important because at seven p.m. your body is winding down, you are not going to do any serious activity so when you eat late at night, all your body does is store the fats from the food you ate and add it on as body weight. Oh boy, did I have to pray on THAT one. It would tough and it took eight months but I made it happen. I am a happier more pleasant person now that I have let go of those extra pounds I did not need.
Another thing is I had FAITH. Faith is a very important aspect in life, if you do not have faith that something will happen you will not carry the right attitude about what you are trying to achieve. You will be negative and cross about all that you do and will defeat your purpose. But believing and having faith is gearing your mind for the challenge before you and telling yourself, I will work for this because in the end I will have achieved something wonderful and fulfill something that God has planned for me. I will have made my FATHER proud because I would have helped the LORD to help me. God does help those who help themselves. This is true.
It is important to give thanks after you have received a blessing and any and all good things are blessings and gifts from God, so once you have achieved with the right attitude towards the future in the New Year give thanks to God for all that you have received through him and be glad in that because you have shown great faith by fulfilling your promises.
Be strong, it takes great strenght to let old things go; if like me you were or are overweight then you have to let old habits go. Nothing changes in your life if you keep doing the same things over and over again, so you have to be strong enough to let old mess go. If it is an altercation with a loved one, forgive, if it is guilt, believe that God has forgiven you then forgive yourself. Breathe and let go. It is important to start fresh and end fresh so that you can be refreshed. Letting go of old habits, old noise, old trashy ways is a great way to find peace in the New Year. That is one great resolution to have, just tell yourself and have faith and pray: Lord allow me to learn to let go of my old trashy attitude and ways in order to think and act more like you Lord so I can have peace in the New Year. Drawing closer to the Lord by meditating on the word of God is a good way to get closer to having the mind of Christ.
Enjoy your new year, enjoy your new you, if you are not in a church family that you feel comfortable with then pray and ask God to guide you to one that will motivate you to be more outgoing in Christ. Live to worship and love to serve by telling others how good God has been to you. If we reflect on our past and we do not like what we see, know that it does not have to define what we will be in the future. You have the power to change your future and the joy of the Lord can and will be your strenght. So allow the Lord to bless you in your life. Open your hearts and resolve to love yourselves deeper and more richly in the Lord.
Be blessed all
Love,
Drisana
