January 1st is one of my favorite days of the year. Like a kid on Christmas Eve, I am giddy with expectation: a new year, a clean slate. New adventures and experiences lie in wait as we step into 2025!
I’m nothing if not reflective at this time of year, pondering the last 12 months and making plans, big and small, for the next 12. I grab paper and pen to make notes. You may not be a resolution maker, but I am. I have daily and weekly to-do lists. Why not have a written one for the new year? I write them down, putting a copy in my Bible and daily devotional. That allows me to review them often to make sure I’m staying on task. I tell my family I will make some for them, too. (They don’t laugh.)
While I am making my own resolutions for the new year, I have made some for you:
I will probably have more to add later.
I sit here excited with blank paper in hand for plans, goals, and dreams. Who knows where the Lord will lead us and how He will use us in 2025?
Philippians 3:13-14 were written by the Apostle Paul: “But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.” They sound like New Year’s verses to me.
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Dawn Reed is a pastor's wife, newspaper columnist, and the author of Weiner Stew: Inspiring Stories from Appalachia. Reach her at preacherswife7@yahoo.com.