New Year's Resolutions?

It's 2009. I hear people talking about resolutions and how they stayed up to watch the New Year's hoopla. For me, it's just another day. Don't know if that comes from my school schedule where the year goes from August to August, but it just doesn't seem like the start of the year to me. Any resolutions that are made I see as a set up for a down fall. The mere law of atrophy proves that it takes way too much energy to sustain any permanent change.

It must be that the older you get the less you care about seeing another new year. The only people that I know that stayed up to welcome in the New Year were my daughter and her young college-aged friends. The rest of us old fogies went to bed! Didn't see the need to miss out on a good night's sleep.

So, as far as resolutions, I have none. Although, in the mornings before my feet hit the floor, I say a prayer to God to help me with this day to live it for His glory. I know that I may not succeed, especially without His intervention, but each day proves a new chance to let Him try to effect my life and make me a better person. I am grateful for another day. I thank Him for His graciousness that gives me hope each day.

Lamentations 3:22-26
22) It is through the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not.
23) They are new every morning; great is Thy faithfulness.
24) "The LORD is my portion," saith my soul, "Therefore will I hope in Him."
25) The LORD is good unto them that wait for Him, to the soul that seeketh Him. 26) It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.