Starting Over

On this New Year's Eve for 2009, let us all remember reflecting on the past can serve multiple purposes. First, we can look back on all the good things that we can be thankful for, especially family and friends. If we have our health, we certainly must be thankful for that. Without our health, everything becomes dire.

Second, if we have had challenges, we can be thankful that we survived them or at least we are continuing on. Hope is strictly reserved for those that persevere.

Third, we can forget about our mistakes and grievances. Fretting about personal failures of one form or another does no good. The only good from these are the lessons applied to our lives.

Fourth, we have the opportunity to change our lives for the better in the New Year. Starting over is such a good thing, especially if things have gone badly. We don't have to wait for New Year's Day to do this, we can do this every day. New Year's resolutions don't do anyone any good unless a new good habit is formed. Activities must be done everyday for 21 days to become a habit. 3 short weeks! Who will stick to it? Once the habit is formed, it becomes more difficult to break it. 3 short weeks to a better life - isn't that worth it?

Remember my IKC principle:
Information is not knowledge without action.
Knowledge creates choices.
Choices allow us to change our lives.

As always, the choice is yours!

"The time is coming," declares the LORD,
"when I will make a new covenant
with the house of Israel
and with the house of Judah.

It will not be like the covenant
I made with their forefathers
when I took them by the hand
to lead them out of Egypt,
because they broke my covenant,
though I was a husband to them."
declares the LORD.

"This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel
after that time," declares the LORD.
"I will put my law in their minds
and write it on their hearts.
I will be their God,
and they will be my people.

No longer will a man teach his neighbor,
or a man his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,'
because they will all know me,
from the least of them to the greatest,"
declares the LORD.
"For I will forgive their wickedness
and will remember their sins no more." Jeremiah 31:31-34 (NIV)


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