Christmas time is now over. The challenges of a New Year are upon us. This insinuates a more competitive goal setting that must be met. After all, you might have set a new diet as a goal last year and if you did, did you make it? What would happen if there were new modern day goals for the North Pole?
The 12 Days of Christmas of 2011 would look different. Maybe, it would look like 12 Drummers, and 11 Pipers piping will now be MIDI and podcasted, so that this would help in cutting costs and provide an investment opportunity on technology. The 10 Lords leaping and the nine ladies dancing are now implemented as CGI (By the way, that is Computer Graphics Imagery) because of the economic situation and have been let go. We can keep on staff the eight maids of milking so that we can have the commercial “Got Milk?” and milk mustaches on the ladies entertaining. However, I just learned a lawsuit was filed declaring there was no equal opportunity in the workplace. Yep...you guessed it...now automated too. They will be standing next to the elves. The elves were downsized (no pun intended) because the list appeared more naughty than good. After all, is there anything good coming out of the Congress and Senate lately? PETA will be happy to know the seven swans are still swimming, and we didn’t have them for Christmas day as a dinner entrée.
Due to PETA regulations and standards, we will continue to allow the six geese to lay their eggs, and we can eat the products as long as there are no hatchlings inside. The five golden rings have been put on hold by the Board of Directors. Maintaining a portfolio based on one commodity could have negative implications for institutional investors. Diversification into other precious metals as well as a mix of T-Bills and high technology stocks appear to be in order.
Therefore, because of wire tapping standards, the four calling birds are being replaced by an automated voice mail system. Now because the bill has not been passed for automated citizenship; the three French horns will have been deported, because they ran out of air to carry a tune in this country. As far as the two turtle doves and the partridge in a pear tree, PETA and the ASPCA are scrutinizing over the care of the animals, and now they have “Thirteen lawyers a-suing”.
Wow. What a change. Interesting how things can become so out of whack so easily and quickly. What if we had these as our New Year Resolutions or the following: I will not sit in my living room all day in my pajamas. Instead, I will move my computer into the bedroom. I will help out the Government and conserve water by taking fewer showers. I will stop considering other people's feelings when they so obviously don't consider mine - if that unwashed fellow sits next to me again, I'll tell him he stinks!
I hope this finds you in a joyful mood and have brightened your day. The intent is for us to look at our intentions when facing a new year. We wrack our brains to think of resolutions to improve our lives. We can obviously, prefer to make resolutions that are a sure thing like eat numerous times during the new year or sleep whenever possible.
Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.-Oscar Wilde
We have to be practical in our thinking. A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one Year and out the other. Instead of being like the man in the mirror which soon forgets here are 5 things you can remember like the five fingers on your hand:
1. Mend a broken relationship – Colossians 3:13 Forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another.
2. Help others who are need – Matthew 25:34-40 Feed the hungry, assist the poor.
3. Be Healthier – 1 Corinthians 19:20 we maybe the temple, so we must watch what we eat, exercise the mind and body.
4. Spend time in prayer/meditation – Matthew 14:22-23 Christ went alone to pray by himself. We too should pray more and mediate on His word.
5. Love God and others – Mark 12:29-31 This is the greatest command we are asked to do.
Should this be just a New Year’s resolution as annual attempts or should they be daily convictions that stem from a true desire to love Him? May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. (1 Thess 5:23).
Happy New Year!!
