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This made me laugh! John Branyan’s post, “Next Year is Your Responsibility”
My kind of humor, I suppose. He nailed it. We people can be just that silly.
At some point in my life, I stopped making New Year’s resolutions. I realized I was just setting myself up for failure. Everybody has good intentions, right? Until about …..the second week of January.
We’ll call this thing “New Year’s worship” or “New Year’s idolatry.” Hey, if it works for you and it makes for good small talk, go for it. No criticism here! Myself, I just realized the Apostle Peter and I have a great many things in common. God knows me better than I know myself, and He knows my circumstances to come, so making vows about what I’m going to do a few weeks from now, just doesn’t work for me.
I swear I’m going to…….wait is that a brownie?
A bit funny, if the Apostle Peter is really at the pearly gates, I could be in a bit of trouble. He just might go, “Hey I recognize you, you’re that crazy lady that was always talking about me, claiming I didn’t know my own mind, saying I was a bit rough around the edges……what’s with all that??”
I hope not, because I adore the Apostle Peter. I have gleaned some great wisdom from him.
So, completely devoid of any vows, promises, resolutions, or New Year’s celebrations, I’ll take on the whole list from Branyan’s post. Amen to them all.
Now, go and tell the others…….
Mel Wild said:
Good stuff. I liked what John B said here:
“Work your magic, twenty-eighteen.
Count on us for no help.
Zero.
We’ll keep doing what we’ve always done.”
This is SO true. We think that there’s some magic thing in a new year that causes our resolutions to happen without us making serious changes.
So, instead of just a Happy New Year, may we all actually change the dumb things we’ve been doing in 2018!
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insanitybytes22 said:
LOL! I like that Mel. Perhaps our resolution in 2018 should just be, “do less of the dumb things we usually do.”
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Mel Wild said:
That’s probably more realistic. 🙂
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ExAnimo7 said:
That’s a great post by Branyan. 👍
I no longer do resolutions. If I have goals or make promises of improvement, I make them short-term. I just try to live my life as it comes.
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insanitybytes22 said:
Living your life as it comes is really wise. It’s good to have some say over it, but in truth life just comes at you sometimes.
“Resistance is futile,” from Star Trek I think. Got go with the flow once in a while. 🙂
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Rebecca LuElla Miller said:
I think you have Biblical grounds to reject resolutions, IB. Paul (who tends to agree with Peter a lot) said, “For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is in my flesh, for the willing is present in me, but the doing of the good is not. So for years, when New Years rolled around, the willing was present in me, but I soon learned, the doing of the good is not. I decided to save myself much stress and disappointment and guilt and simply let God chisel where He wants. I find life is more enjoyable. 😉
Becky
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Rebecca LuElla Miller said:
Oh, yeah, I forgot to close the quotes and give the reference. That’s from Romans 7, somewhere around v 18 or 19 or 20.
Becky
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insanitybytes22 said:
Love that, “just letting God chisel away where He will.” That’s the spirit!
A bit funny if you think about it, but we need to be renewing our minds constantly, letting the Lord shape us daily. To try to do it all on New Year’s, is kind of like taking your yearly bath in an old Western.
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Rebecca LuElla Miller said:
Hahahah! EXCTLY
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patrickhawthorne01 said:
I hereby resolve to break every New Year’s Resolution I make before it is made so that I will in no manner feel remorseful should I accidentally manage to keep one. Signed, “ME.”
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insanitybytes22 said:
Ha! Very clever, Patrick. 🙂
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lynnabbottstudios said:
So hilarious! And yes, I don’t bother with resolutions. I set flexible goals at times but NOT on New Year’s. Love this post, IB!
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