New Years Resolutions

I haven’t written lately, it seems that every time I even think about sitting down to write 20 things come to mind of things I need to do before I sit to write. I’ve also let other pressures affect my writing time. You know we get caught up in things we think a paramount and if we don’t do them we’ll have failed we think. And then we look back and see that it wouldn’t really have mattered. One of my dreaded New Years Resolutions I made this year was to slow down a bit and enjoy life. Guess what it’s January 10, 2008 and I haven’t put the old habits aside to learn new ones to make that happen. I guess that’s one of the things resolutions do, you write them down so you can review them later and keep yourself on track.

Pastor Ken Johnson ask us last year in one of his sermons “are you taking time to listen to God” He went on to say that God is talking to us always, we’re just to busy or stubborn to listen. The stubborn part was my input based on personal experience. My friend Rob Imhoff and I were talking yesterday about things, and he asked me how is your quiet time with God. I thought for a second to make sure my answer was true, and I was able to say I have been setting aside that time and it’s has been good. As I played that conversation back in my head last night I realized that my success with resolutions won’t always be 100 percent successful, the important things I will strive to improve. I say that to encourage those of us that make resolution and struggle to keep them, or even 1 or 2 of them.