Happy New Year 2016
Time really flies. I remember my mother once telling me, “Once you have kids, time goes so fast”. It’s funny really. We all have the same 24 hours in a day or 1440 minutes. Some days seem to fly by, while others seem to drag on forever.
As I reflect over my own life, I would agree it seems time is just flying by. My kids are adults now, and when I look in the mirror I see the gray hair and wrinkles appearing in my face. I love it when someone asks me the ages of my kids, I tell them, and the response I get typically is “you’re kidding right?” Or “I never would have guessed.” I guess they are either being nice, or don’t see the same things I see.
It doesn’t matter really. I started thinking about all the times I’ve made New Year Resolutions, and how they failed. Then I just stop making them, learning that when I did, I only set myself up for failure. Sometime it happened faster than others, but the fact remains I have never met a New Year Goal I placed on myself. But thinking more about this goal setting idea, I do have one goal this year. I need complete a scarf I started two years ago. I think I can handle that.
It was rather refreshing to not hear anyone else set up New Year Resolutions either. Maybe we are coming to understand, we are who we are. Can we make better choices, can we change our lives? Sure we can! But I think we need to take things slowly.
I myself have been trying to make my decision with more thought, sometime it works, other times it doesn’t. I try to look to each minute rather than say “within this year I will, insert whatever here”.
The bible tells us in Ecclesiastes 3 : For everything that happens in life—there is a season……..
My personal favorite; 2 Peter 3:8: 8 Don’t imagine, dear friends, that God’s timetable is the same as ours; as the psalm says, for with the Lord, one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years is like one day.
So time may appear to be flying, but it is God’s time. So If I have to make a New Year Resolution, I would have to say, I will try and not take time for grante, and finish my scarf project. Time is a gift from God, to use it appropriately. We are human and we will make mistakes with our time. Embrace that, and know God is with us, through the gray hair, the weight gain and all the happy times!
Happy New Year!
Nicely said!