New Year's Resolution Blues

Every year, millions of Americans make resolutions prior to the first day of January with every intention of staying committed to them all year long.  Every year, pastors and teachers use this analogy in search of some spiritual correlation to be used in their sermons, Sunday school lessons or blogs.  But every year, people's ambitious intentions of fulfilling their resolutions go up in SMOKE, but still we use this holiday tradition to alliterate the Spiritual realm in correlations that might be better made by other means.




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It just so happens that I have a very HEALTHY ability to make such correlations, though I'm almost embarrassed by such a shallow skill.  But the real SKINNY is that I’m suffering from the New Year’s Resolution Blues, or abbreviated, the "NewY-ReeBs," as I like to call them.  Having a case of the “NewY-ReeBs” is like a case of the shingles: you’ve had the chicken pox already, and just when you were beginning to ENJOY LIFE, you acquire a much more painful relapse illness that makes you wonder, "what was the point of getting the chicken pox all about, anyway?"  The “NewY-ReeBs” is the feeling that you’ve already done this once before, and it makes as much sense as a HANGOVER to have to go through it again.

I've used the New Year's Resolution analogy so many times, now, that it no longer makes sense to have to go through it again. It feels so rote, and in a time when CHANGE is needed so badly, the last thing I want to do is give you yet another repetitious attempt at making something "old" feel like something "NEW."  I feel as though I OWE you better than that.


Depression sets in and before you realize it, you’ve spent your entire blog text space with an article about a New Year’s Resolution analogy without having successfully drawn such an analogy.  Instead, you have little to no depth or content in your publication, and little more than a handful of photos and hyperlinks littering your once beneficial blogging space.  Not to mention that you're FAMILY is beginning to wonder what's happened to you.  At this point, you become too confused to explain the whole thing, and you must simply sign-off from your blog…as you are now out of time and space.


I love irony.

P.s. The moral of the story is: Don't let New Year's Resolutions burn you out this year...live every moment for Christ and His kingdom by using every minute wisely and UNSELFISHLY...

NO MATTER WHAT!

Tell me what you're thinking,

-jeff