Welcome to Conversations with John and Lisa and both of us want to say to everybody

happy, happy new year. It is January the 3rd and we are celebrating 2017. Can you

believe it? We're at 2017. At least it just seems like the other day we were

coming into the Y2K thing and I mean where has the last 17 years gone? They've

just blown by. I know and you know this is the time of year where I kind of like

it. Everybody kind of gets serious about some things and tries to develop some

disciplines and there's a very good aspect of that and then there's a very

destructive aspect of that and I think in this podcast I'd like to cover both

angles on it. You know one of the good aspects from me at the beginning of the

year is normally I have I've been carrying a holiday food baby from all the

different food from Thanksgiving to Christmas that I have this holiday food

baby that I'm like so glad that I can say I'm sorry I'm fasting or I've

something I can cut back a little bit because I've been forced fed for so long.

So that's always a happy thing for me. That's a happy thing. Alright. But you know

we're on January 3rd which means that possibly just possibly people made

some New Year's resolutions that they've already broken. They've already

broken and there may be people out there right now John feeling guilty and

feeling like darn it. I've blown it. I've already ate sugar when I wasn't

supposed to or I didn't. Please don't fast. Coffee. We want you to continue to

drink coffee just for the safety of everybody in the world but maybe there

was something that they gave up and they feel bad about or maybe they made a

commitment to read the Bible through through in a year and now they're

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