During this first week of the year, many people will assess their lives and seek to make what they hope will be lasting changes. Plans to quit smoking, lose weight, further one's education and a myriad of other resolutions will be made this week. Some will succeed in keeping their self-made promises in the next year while others will last only a few days or perhaps even hours.
As people of faith, we do not need the arrival of a new year to prompt changes in our lives. Each night we retire to sleep and in the morning we are born again into a new realm of possibilities. Each day, each moment is a gift and we should be careful to use our times for things that are of lasting significance. The world we see is temporary and passing, but the spiritual and emotional lives we lead will carry on forever in our spirits and in the lives of people we influence.
A challenge for the year: make every day significant. Whether in work or rest, play or worship, we can resolve to live a life of consequence.
Hope you are having a great start to 2012.
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