Some New Year’s Thoughts for 2024

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake.   —Francis Bacon Sr. Do you make New Year’s resolutions? If so, I guess this is the time to come up with some. I’ve made plenty in my time. Even maybe kept …

1st Sunday Devotional – A New Year Awaits

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“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.”~Edith Lovejoy Pierce It’s the first Sunday of the first month of a New Year. 2022. All those twos. In a couple of hundred years people will be able to …

Why Do We Make New Year’s Resolutions?

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We were blessed to start another new year. 2020. Babies born in 2000 are young adults now. Anybody born in 1920, the beginning of the Roaring Twenties is looking at turning 100. My mom was born in 1920 and always said she wanted to live to be 100. She didn’t quite make it, but she had a good run toward …

One Word Resolutions

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“Approach the new year with resolve to find the opportunities hidden in each new day.” ~Michael Josephson Choose a word. That’s the advice that’s been going around on the internet and with self help blogs and books. Don’t worry about making long lists of New Year’s Resolutions. Go short. Very short. Distill your resolutions down to one word. One word …