At the beginning of each year, we always do the same thing. We make new year resolutions and we always say that this year is going to be our year. However, later in September or October, we are about ready for a new year because this one was pretty rough, right? It seems to be the same thing every year, but what if this year, you have a new perspective on it? Instead of saying, this is gonna be my year, what if you say this is gonna be a year? It might be good, it might be rough, but it's defiantly going to be a year.
I think around New Year's, we put so much pressure on the new year about to happen. We don't know what is going to happen in the new year because none of us can look into the future. The only person that knows what will happen is God. You can allow yourself to think "oh it's gonna be my year", but later you might think "well, why did this happen, I thought this was gonna be a good year".
In the Bible, Jesus might have thought the same. He might have thought you know today is gonna be a good day. But later, the day might have gotten frustrated with a lot of people bothering him and trying to hurt him or his friends. However, at the end of the day, He still went to God and prayed and thanked him for the day, whether it was good or bad.
Let's be honest for a hot minute though. Not one year is going to be perfect. Every year has 365 days. That's a lot of days of perfection and good things, and it's not normally possible to even have a perfect month, let alone a perfect year. Every year might have its ups and downs through it all, but it's the way we look at it, that makes it all better.
Lately, I've been doing this little grateful checklist at the end of the day. I try to find three good things that maybe I didn't notice during the moment, but at the end of the day, they seemed like really awesome things. I like this because sometimes when we are so focused on the situation at hand or the highs and lows of life, we miss the really amazing things right in front of us.
Maybe, that's something you want to try in the new year? Even though the new year is always the same with resolutions and some pretty high standards, you might want to try and have a new perspective on it. It's gonna have it's ups and downs just like everything in life, but don't miss the really amazing moments in the middle of all of it.
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