Starting Over: A Salute To An old Year

Well it is that time of the year again, the time when we go from celebrating the birth of a baby onto contemplating out past year and imagining our future. Our future we anticipate can be better if we change a few of our behaviours, especially those that we place a negative connotation on. It is New Years Eve almost. It is a time in the year when it seems almost anything is possible. New beginnings are the stuff of our imagining even when, at the back of our memory, we know that we have a list of resolutions from last year that in many areas we may have to include again. It is a good thing to contemplate change. It is a better thing to plan a change in such a way that we go through some smaller changes prior to the big one. If you know that you would be a better person by stopping a particular behaviour then why wait for a new day? Life is more than I wish, change is a matter of I will do. Consider the matter of Jesus before the cross in the garden when he prayed to Father to allow him to avoid the crucifixion. We wouldnt blame Him if He had piqued out, it was a horrible form of capital punishment. But no He submitted to that death to permit the master plan to be completed. Passover was/is the Jewish New Year. A time when they had their sins expunged by the sacrifice of a lamb, it was a particular feast day that was celebrated to take care of the end of the year (and might I suggest that they also might have imagined a more holy year head). So then if the making of resolutions is an acceptable occupation for this time of the year, what makes it separate to other times? Change for changes sake is potentially a good thing at other times as well. It is entirely possible to make a change for the first day of each month What we would need to do to make it work is to bring the Father God into our deliberations because He enables change better than anyone and He knows what your potential is. The end point of making resolutions is to keep them unlike the almost recycled nature of resolutions of previous years It does not benefit anyone to make New Years resolutions only to go back on that resolution in the space of weeks or months. It would be better to plan ahead and allow circumstances to give you the possibility of raising the intention for change at a time which is good for you. This is more likely to be successful rather than using an arbitrary date like New Years where the odds are against success. We tend to treat New Years with a little bit of scepticism, discounting the intent that goes into making the resolutions. Especially is it so when we resolve to when we rely in faith upon allowing God to enable the changes in our lives. It is better to let people discover that we have changed our life quietly than make a big deal of it then to fail to see that change through.