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Dear Lord,

Give us a new year. Not just a new number, but a truly new year. Give us a year full of new things, new adventures, new attitudes, and visions. Lord, give us a new year full of new ideas and refresh some of our old ideas. Give us new relationships and renew old relationships, and restore relationships that have been broken.

Lord, give us a new year. Give us a new song. Give us a new memory. Give us new thoughts, new friends, and new things that replace the old worn-out things.

Lord, give us a new year. The year that has just ended was difficult for some of us. There were struggles and frustrations and disappointments that we did not handle so well. Give us a better mentality and better spiritual insight that will help us deal with the struggles, frustrations and disappointments that will come in this New Year.

Lord, give us a new year. Give us a year filled with new ministries, new opportunities, new voices, and new messages. Help us hold on to the old things that are worth holding, and help us let go of the old things that have served their purpose.

Lord, give us a new year. Give us a year that is not controlled by fear. A year in which we are not afraid of people who are different. A year when we are not afraid of ideas that are new, of plans that are new, and places that are new.

Lord, give us a new year. Give us a year filled with new love. A new love for You. A new love for each other. A new love for Your Kingdom. A new love for strangers. A new love for the helpless. A new love for the needy. A new love for poor. A new love for rich. A new love for all people.

Lord, give us a new year. Help us put the old one to bed. Help us to leave the things of the past in the past. Help us look forward. Help us look beyond what we can see to what You have planned for us that we cannot see. Help us move forward with confidence and courage and humility and gentleness.

Lord, give us a new year. Help us, in this New Year to completely surrender to You and what You have planned for us in this year filled with new things.

by Tom Norvell

Thanks for being one of the reasons I’ll have a Happy New Year!

By Joanna Fuchs

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Tips for Making Good New Year’s Resolutions

There is a right way and a wrong way to make a New Year’s resolution.

Here are a few expert tips to see that your resolution actually makes a difference:

1. Create a Plan

Setting a goal without formulating a plan is merely wishful thinking.

In order for your resolution to have resolve, (as the word “resolution” implies), it must translate into clear steps that can be put into action. A good plan will tell you

A) What to do next and

B) What are all of the steps required to complete the goal.

2. Create Your Plan IMMEDIATELY

If you’re like most people, then you’ll have a limited window of opportunity

during the first few days of January to harness your motivation. After that, most people forget their resolutions completely.

It is imperative that you begin creating your plan immediately.

3. Write Down Your Resolution and Plan

Commit your resolution and plan to writing someplace, such as a notebook or journal.

4. Think “Year Round,” Not Just New Year’s

Nothing big gets accomplished in one day. Resolutions are set in one day, but accomplished

with a hundred tiny steps that happen throughout the year. New Year’s resolutions should be

nothing more than a starting point. You must develop a ritual or habit for revisiting your plan.

And finally…

5. Remain Flexible

Expect that your plan can and will change. Life has a funny way of throwing

unexpected things at us, and flexibility is required to complete anything but the

simplest goal. Sometimes the goal itself will even change. Most of all, recognize

partial successes at every step along the way. Just as a resolution isn’t accomplished

the day it’s stated, neither is it accomplished the day you reach your goal.

Rather, it’s accomplished in many small increments along the way.

Acknowledge these incremental successes as they come.

GOOD LUCK AND ME YOUR RESOLUTION/GOAL STORY!