Happy New Year 2025

Hopefully your new year is off to a very good start. If not and assess what you can and will do to make it the best possible.

The mask came off of the City that Care Forgot, New Orleans. It revealed the face of evil. Resultantly people who anticipated a new year experienced its abrupt end and others entered the new year through the portal of pain and suffering.

Hopefully America will begin the new year with a new commitment to the virtues that have traditionally made it great. The election of Donald Trump as President gives cause for optimism. His task is formidable. Expectations are staggering. Hopefully the best will result.

New Year’s resolutions are not a panacea, neither are they new. But they can be helpful. They go back over 3,000 years to the ancient Babylonians. Now it is your time.

The dawning of a new year makes many people concerned about changes in their lives. Do you? If so, how do you fit in the following?

The Forbes Health/One Poll survey found some resolutions to be more common than others, with the most popular goals including:
Improved fitness (48%)
Improved finances (38%)
Improved mental health (36%)
Lose weight (34%)
Improved diet (32%)

Men are slightly more confident (82%) than women (79%) in their ability to reach their goals.   

Optimism abounds depending on how a person is able to drop the last year into the stealth limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go. Remove “shoulds, woulduhs, coulduh” from your vocabulary this year.

Some people had such a bad old year they are going to stay up late New Year’s Eve not to bring in the new year, but to be sure the old one leaves.

Don’t pull the dark clouds of the pass over the joy of potential better things to come. You will get out of it more than what you put into it.

God made us with the ability to change the course of life. With His help you can change for the better.

“With the coming of the new year you can open a new record book. Its pages are blank. You are going to put words on them yourselves. The book is called “Opportunity.”

Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering “I will….”

Start your journey with a “what now, Lord….”

Of the top 15 most popular resolutions not one has a spiritual component. Your new year can be better overall if every page has His finger prints on it.

Pray as David prayed, “Create in me a clean heart, O God, And renew a steadfast spirit within me” (Psalm 51: 10).

This is a grand time “To put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness” (Ephesians 4:22-24 ESV).

Reconsider any new resolution you might make. Is it’s reason to honor God? If so, go for it with your whole heart. Get ‘er done for His glory.

May you have a HAPPY NEW YEAR.