1/7/2011 - A New Year a New Beginning

Why do we all love New Years?  I believe it's the chance for a clean slate, a brand new year clean and bright with no mistakes yet.  Face it we can all look back on 2010 and see things we wish we could change:

• not enough time spent with loved ones
• not enough time spent doing things we enjoy
• not enough organization of our time, homes and lives
• too much gluttony, not enough exercise
• too much TV
• etc..., etc...,

But with the New Year we have the chance to make up for all of that.  We can do better and be more organized, right?
Well actually No, we can't be better on our own.  On our own we can do nothing.  It is only through God's help that we can change.  For the heart of man is sinful and incapable of becoming better without the saving grace of God.  New Years resolutions are great.  We should resolve to be better.  But we must understand that the strength and ability to actually become better come from God.  So make those resolutions and then pray for the help to keep them.