You make New Years resolutions? You keep them? Good for you... I don't. I became sick and tired of making the same old resolutions year after year only to break them quicker and quicker with every year. However, last year I made a resolution that I kept to myself. I didn't even tell my wife about this resolution. Now on the eve of 2012 I can say that I successfully kept my 2011 resolution. My resolution 364 days ago was not to have a bad day in 2011. 2011 was not the greatest year, in fact, a lot of bad things happened to me in 2011. But, in the whole year not once did I say "I'm having a bad day".
Did I have frustrating days where things didn't go my way? Of course. Were there periods of time in the past year where my family and I were struggling? Absolutely. But, everyday is a day that God has created and planned specifically for us so how can it be bad day?
I plan on doing this again in 2012. I will not have a bad day in 2012, no matter what comes my way.
No matter what stress, frustration, and struggles I will encounter in 2012 I will thank God for what he is doing in my life.
I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Gal 2:20
It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.
Gal. 5:1
