Resolutions? No…not me!

 

People make New Year’s resolutions, but I don’t. I tried back in high school to do that. Go to bed earlier, quit laughing at the wrong times, and get your homework done early. (That’s why I couldn’t get to bed early then.) In my advancing years, I learned it wouldn’t work for me. Two weeks into the New Year, I’d totally broken them all. So focus is my forte these days. How many mothers of young children learn to multi-task out of sheer need? Reporters multi-task to get all the stories done at the right time in the correct way. 

 

Today is a matter of my attitude. A Bible teacher I heard the other day said that we want God to change our circumstances and He wants to change our hearts. So we can accept our circumstances no matter what they are. We pray for Him to change people in our lives and He reminds us that we COULD be part of the problem. If we forgive them quickly for what they do that we don’t like, it may lead to the peace we crave. In our hearts, our home, our world.

 

Part of my peace left when I had to stop hugging people. I used to tell people I needed five hugs a day just to keep going. I refuse, however, to stop laughing. Five laughs a day is a good goal, even if four of them are at myself. So many times I find myself doing such incredible things and have to laugh at myself. So I stay pretty caught up in the laugh department. I have a nephew, a great one, but then they are all great, who sends a joke in a text out of the blue and makes me laugh. So that too, keeps me caught up. 

 

Did you hear about the woman who asked her husband if he’d seen the dog bowl? He replied, “No, I didn’t know he could do that.”