January, 2004 

         Happy New Year!

"Every first of January is an imaginary milestone on the journey of human life: a resting-place for thought and meditation,and a starting point for fresh exertion in completing our journey. The man who does not at least propose to himself to be better this year than last year must be either very good or very bad.  Just to will to be better is worthwhile, even if nothing more than acknowledgment of our need to be so, which is the first step toward improvement".

~ Selected ~

Forgetting Those Things Behind

On the last day of the year, we have a tendency to look back
with regret on our many mistakes, disappointments, and sorrows that occurred during the past year. If we can look back and learn enough from  from our mistakes to keep us from repeating them, then it is good.  But if we dwell on them in a way which is harmful to our progress, then it is wrong and we should not look back.

It is always good and beneficial to reflect on the days which were pleasurable, the days which brought peace and satisfaction for deeds well done, the friendships we made, the things which made us laugh, and the joy brought to us by the thoughtfulness of others.

Did you ever wonder why God made us with eyes in the front of our head instead of the back?  He intended for us to look and go forward. Instead of borrowing trouble and sadness from yesterday, look to the good and pleasant things of tomorrow.  Make that first resolution one that will help you remember to look forward to the good and not let the bad things of the past mar you present and your future.
~ Fern Hanlin Coberly ~

"Nor deem the irrevocable past as wholly wasted, wholly vain, if rising on its wrecks, at last to something nobler we obtain." ~
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~

"Take twelve fine, full-grown months; see that these are thoroughly free from all old memories of bitterness, hate, and jealousy; cleanse them completely from every clinging spite; pick off all specks of pettiness and littleness; in short, see that these months are freed from all the past - have them as fresh and clean as when they first came form the great storehouse of Time".

~ Selected ~

"Forgetting those those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things that are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus."
~ Philippians 3: 13,14 ~ 

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