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Words of Encouragement SCS— January 2008 Happy New Year! Here we are well into January 2008! It's interesting how each month of the year has a theme or holiday attached to it. If we hadn't already been aware of it once again our dependable media finds countless ways to remind us! With January comes the message of opportunity for a fresh start, change and improvement. We can reshape our bodies, remodel our homes, buy the latest tool or gadget all often with no payment, no interest until… And then there is always the encouragement to set a "New Years Resolution" by examining our life in the past year and determining where there is a need for change or improvement. I don't know how successful setting a new year's resolution is for most people, but the concept of looking at our lives with a sense of review, room for refreshment and improvement is something we should all consider. Life requires routine, planning and preparation. We find our family and ourselves in a routine however that might look. The routines of our lives provide a sense of comfort and order when we are going through the motions of our daily lives With the holidays behind us, because we assume that we must get back to those routines, we realize how much being out of those routines has thrown us off balance as we struggle to get back on track. It occurs to me that as we work to fit back into those set routines and find it difficult to step back into them (not to mention getting our children to fall back into "The Routine"), we could take that as in invitation to visit those routines and discover whether they could be reshaped, remodeled or refreshed all without payment or interest… Have a "Family Routine Resolutions Session," brainstorming together the ways that you can renew current routines to make them more exciting, inviting and productive for all. The benefits could be of unexpected value. Remaining open to our healthy need for reassessment, revitalizing and refreshment assists us in becoming the person God is calling us to be. With God and His Word as your guide, make each "New Day's Resolution" an opportunity to "..be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is the good, and acceptable and perfect will of God" (Romans 12:2). God's Blessings, Laura Neven |
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