Happy New Year! I hope you enjoyed your new years eve. Myself, I didn’t make it past 10 pm. I would like to contribute that to old age, but I know many who are older than me and stayed up well past midnight.
I am wishing that you and your family have a wonderful 2023 and that everything you hope for and want comes to fruition. I also hope that you spend a little God time.
I have decided that I was lax last year in my spiritual being and want to focus more on myself. A very dear friend of mine got me a book for Christmas and it is 365 daily devotions for women. The book is called “A Little God Time For Women.” I started to read this yesterday and I will every day this year. So far, I am enjoying it. Two days in and I know it is going to be a good one.
I use to do resolutions but I gave up on them when I didn’t fulfill them. Now, I just make sure I follow a plan from the previous year. Last year, it was to lose weight. I have so far dropped 72 lbs and plan to continue to drop weight so I can get that elusive knee surgery.
During the winters up here in Port McNicoll, they can be, well, very snowy. On those days, I walk around the driveway. I am hoping with the aid of my walker, I can continue on my walks on the days that it isn’t snowy and the walk is plowed.
Do you make new years resolutions? Do you keep them? How is your God time? What are your plans for this year?
The book today is “About You.” The lesson for today in that book, states, Are you self-critical? If asked to describe yourself, what would you say? Now think of someone who loves you. What do they say about you? Decide today to let their words, and God’s words, be the truth. Join Mother Mary in saying to God, “May everything you have said about me come true.”
We know that God loves us, he wants us to be good people. One who loves others as well as ourselves. Let’s make 2023 a year to be kind to us. Make it about ourselves and be gentle with ourselves.
Luke 1:38
Then Mary said, “Here am I, the servant of the Lord; let it be with me according to your word.” Then the angel departed from her.
Blessings,
Rev. Lorie
