Just One Idea for a Great New Year!

Just thinking about the New Year can be overwhelming. There are resolutions I should make but probably won���t live up to.�� A calendar that���s too full or a life that sounds lonely and boring.�� Sick kids to entertain at home. Christmas recovery.

Frigid weather stalling warm happy thoughts.

We need a fresh, encouraging word, a word full of hope.

And it would help if it was the first thing in the morning!

A few years ago I realized that when I woke up and began to think about my day I became depressed. There was no prevailing reason why, simply a feeling of dread followed by guilt for feeling this way.

Mothers of young children don���t have the luxury of thinking before they get out of bed. More likely there���s some little foot kicking them or a bigger voice calling for them. But some of us don���t have kids. Others have reached the season when we do have a few minutes to awaken slowly and the time to contemplate. It can be a moment of rejoicing or a moment of feeling blue. It depends upon our focus.

Lying in bed that morning I realized I needed to adjust my attitude, to shift from thinking about how I feel about my day to focusing on God.��

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