Sometimes life gets in our way.  We spend countless days planning, organizing, changing plans, looking for shortcuts for our plans, reorganizing all that we semi-organized just a few days prior and then we start all over again.  In the end....really what have we accomplished?  Nothing that will last.  Nothing that furthers the Kingdom.  Nothing that shares the Good News of Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.  All of our efforts are well intentioned but when we actually stop and contemplate what we have done with our days, we fall short of glorifying the One and Only true God.

I have spent many countless hours this past year thinking and rethinking how things in my life "could" have gone differently.  Guess what?  That changed nothing.  I cannot relive a moment of that time.  It is simply wasted on selfish pity and unnecessary suffering.  What I really needed to do was to lay it all down and trust that my Heavenly Father had and has a plan for each moment.  Of course I have to live my daily life but I can live it far more fully in Him.  I have my every need met by the God of the Universe.  When I step in and shift my focus....trouble for me ensues.  At 61 years of age I am beginning to believe that truth.

I am not one for New Year's resolutions.  For one reason, I can uphold them for about 3 hours.  But my real reason for choosing not to tie myself to them is that I know that left to my own devices, failure is my only hope.  Short of trusting God to provide strength to follow through on my meek attempts I am at best luke warm at the finish.  I never want to discount all that has been done for me and I want to give the glory to God for those blessings.  I want to spend my days lifting His name in praise.  I want to let go of the challenges that hold me back and see only His face.

When I was younger and my dad would tell me that as you grow older the days simply fly by.  I thought that was just senseless.  Surely the days remained 24 hours and the weeks 7 full days..etc.  Now I see what he meant.  My days are numbered by an Almighty God who truly yearns for me to stay fully connected to Him.  My prayer for this New Year is that I will look up and trust all that He has prepared for me in the coming days.   I want to share the love of my Savior with all who I meet and be a light in the darkness of this daily life.

It all comes down to this...we only go around once.