New Beginnings Spot Check!!!

New Beginnings Spot Check!!!

Author: Sharon Verrett

"This is our year!" many of us shouted. "This will be the best year EVER!" We made more New Year plans than we can truly digest. I guess we made them with good intentions; otherwise we wouldn't have bothered, right?

Well ...here we all stand in the line of progression or stagnation. It is nearing the end of the first month of this year. How do we all stand? Spot check… Did we lose the five pounds, one, two or maybe three? Did we go back to church, find Jesus, spend that quality time with family, start that book, enroll in that class and spend more quality time with our spouses?

Yes ...that is a lot to decipher, but often those are the goals we set, often, all at once and we set ourselves up for failure every time. Let us learn to plan realistically. Most marriages fail because we have set up unrealistic goals and expectations.

The married life is not a sprint; we must pace and train ourselves to become distant runners. Otherwise we will burn out quickly and ready to throw in the towel. Just like those resolutions.

So what happens next month when we see we are not on the path to our resolution? Do we put them aside and save them for next year? No... Remember we are distant runners. We keep trying till we get it. We never give up. read more...