New Year Resolutions

New Year’s Resolutions frustrate me. I never make them. Here are helpful thoughts from two authors on this subject:

So let’s make our annual, New Year’s “to do” lists. Desire, and even ambition, will lead the way. But if you want anything on your list to happen, add a good dose of discipline. Which means that along with your “to do” list, you’ll make a list of another kind. A “stop doing” list.(James Emery White)

You can know the reality of God if you like, for God will rejoice to assist and infinitely over-reward whatever effort you make. Resolution is the crucial point … From your prayers form simple resolutions – not, like the absurd resolutions of New Year’s Day, resolutions for the next 12 months, but for the next 12 hours. Make them few enough to be practicable, and obey them for the sake of God himself.(Austin Farrer)

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