I am not making resolutions because there is no need. If the truth shall be told, most of the folks who make resolutions are already lying so why bother? I mean, you know you’re not going to give up smoking because you got a cigarette in your hand now. You know that you’re not going to stop drinking because for some, you brought in the New Year with a drink in your hand and probably can’t even remember much that happened afterwars. You’re not going to change your eating habits and even if you sign up for a gym membership, it’ll be over by this time next month. So, stop lying to yourself. Don’t you know that resolution means a firm decision to do something or the process of resolving something? Well the bible also has a definition for resolution and it is 2 Timothy 2:15 which says, “Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.” So, resolve to be better and then do better and change will follow.
So, back to my year in review… Here is what I’ve learned:
January – Folks attitude change because it’s tax time.
February – You learn your position in your relationship around the 14th of this month. Either you’re the main girl or the jump off.
March – Folks attitudes are back to the rude normal because the tax money has run out and so has their boothang.
April – Folks go into debt dressing up for Easter Sunday and take for granted that Jesus rose on a Sunday morning so that we could be forgiven of our sins no matter how many times we ask. We tend to think that Resurrection Sunday is all about the clothes, shoes and hair bows when it’s really about the death, burial and resurrection of the Man who rose with all power in His hands to heal a sin sick world like the one we’re living in.
May – We don’t cherish our mothers like we should. And that God still has work for me to do because He blessed me with another year of life and marriage
June – We don’t cherish our fathers like we should. We take so much for granted until there are no more grants to give.
July – That death can snatch the breath from your lungs, make your heart skip a beat and tears fall (RIP Granddaddy 7/3/12).
August – That God has blessed me with a strong mother who carries on no matter what circumstance she is faced with.
September – That my gift will make room for me because God allowed me to self-publish my first book. “Doses of Devotion”
October – That even though we sometimes FALL back into our old routines, God never stops reaching down to pick us up.
November – That we should be thankful EVERYDAY of the year and not just thanksgiving
December That Christmas isn’t about me, the gifts I give or even those I receive because if it hadn’t been for God sending His only Son to Earth, we wouldn’t be worth the rags we wear every day that we call clothes because our sins would have had us bound to hell a long time ago!
You don’t have to make a resolution in order to make a change when all you have to do is be yourself but in being yourself, be the best you that you can be! Don’t lie to yourself and please don’t lie to others because we didn’t ask you in the first place to volunteer that lie. If there are things you need to change, do it but do it for you and not because the year’s date changed from 2 to 3 because next year it’ll change again.
Lakisha, the Author 