Have you made any New Year’s Resolutions? Have you looked back over the past year and found areas in your life you want to change? Perhaps it is to get organized. Or maybe you want to lose the weight gained over the holidays. Spiritually speaking, maybe you want to read through the Bible this year. In writing this post about the new year, I contemplated writing about setting goals. I considered sharing how to set broad goals followed by specific objectives and then determining the practical steps needed to take to reach those goals. Then I realized, everyone is writing about setting goals. Blogs, television, social networking sites, and twitter are all abuzz about making resolutions for this new year.

Since this site’s audience is intended for Christian stay-at-home moms, our thoughts on a new year ought to be a bit different from the world’s view on making resolutions. Don’t misunderstand, it’s not as though Christians don’t set goals. It’s not as though we shouldn’t strive to be healthy or get organized. (I know that I for one ate more chocolate during December than I did the rest of the year.) It’s just that we know where the power and strength comes from for producing change in our lives.

Making lists, writing resolutions and creating objectives has no power to change us this year.

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