Are you thinking about New Year's? The other day I was in a, I'd been given a gift card from Barnes and

Noble for my birthday. And so I was at Barnes and Noble just spending someone else's money, which is the best way to do that.

And I was in the checkout line and there was a magazine sitting there and a couple of articles

on the cover that really intrigued me and I bought the magazine

and I want you to know that for three and a half dollars now all my resolution you've taken care of.

And it's really a good thing. It says so right here that I can have a new life

in just eight hours. So I'm really looking forward to that and you know one of these days

probably Wednesday or Thursday I'll

undergo eight hours of pretty hard work and and I'll be a whole new meet. Another

article in here same job less stress so I'm going to pass that around the office when I'm done with it as well.

And you know, I'm amazed at how easy it can be to have some New Year's resolutions.

There was a guy on TV this past week that somebody stuck a microphone in his face and said,

what's your New Year's resolution?

And he said, well for me, he said, I like to keep mine attainable.

And so he said, I only have one New Year's resolution for 2003,

and that's this, that all year long, I won't fall down one time.

And as I listened to that, it occurred to me, you know, we really do tend to be very, very shallow and superficial in the way that we make goals and plans for the future.

And I wonder what it would be like if the people of God did something completely different

than everybody else on Earth.

And so while I want to say to you this morning that that New Year's

resolutions are a good thing. It's a good thing to make a plan to lose 30 pounds or

to clean out the garage or to stop speeding or to

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