DinkyDooDAYs

Well, here we are! Arrived safely into a new year. I always think of the beginning of a new year like being at the top of a new page or the top of a ladder and with each day we write something new and take a step down until we reach the end of that year,then start from the top again. Although I am glad for the arrival of 2010 I felt a tinge of sadness while I was sitting at my desk at work , that it was the very last day of 2009, never to see it again.
"Why ?" was the question asked by my co-workers who were only too glad to see the back of 2009 and were practically running toward 2010, "It's a fresh new start" they would say.
Another co-worker mentioned how an elder at her church stated that New Year's Resolutions were pointless and that you were just setting yourself up for failure if you thought that you could attempt to pursue anything and finish it successfully without the Holy Spirit and that really our resolution should be to pursue God and a desire to be so led by the power of the Holy Spirit in us. At first I just looked at her and said 'OH!",(because there were some resolutions that I had contemplated to attempt without God's help and I was excited to pursue them so I felt like she was being a 'Debbie Downer'!). So here today is the 1st day of the year and did I attempt ANY of those things? No, because my flesh is weak. OK, so he was right. And so My New Years Resolution is to pursue God and all that He has me to be.
2009 was the year Sean,my youngest son graduated from school at 16 and started attending Community College. My daughter Bethany 19 also started to attend Kansas City Art Institute and my second son Ben ,23, moved into his own apt downtown Kansas City.Although I still have 2 of my 4 children at home, I guess I am begining to experience what they refer to as empty nest syndrome ,only it's just partly empty. So, when your children become independent,what do you do? You find something new.
It is a New Year and It is a New Life. Here is to the pursuit of the New Life that God had blessed me with through His beloved Son Jesus.