The New Year always brings up talk of New Year’s resolutions. People especially like to plan for what is to come for the New Year and ponder what resolutions were made from the past year. As I took a random survey of Worthington Christian high school students and staff, I discovered that my results were a little surprising.A large percentage of the people here do not make New Year’s resolutions. This fact was astounding to me. Even among those who did do resolutions for last year, many of them only kept up with their goals for a few weeks at the most. Once the excitement of New Year’s had left them and had reality set in, people realized that wanting to learn to fly or be the world’s next super hero is a little out of their reach.
However, the few people who did make resolutions last year did a very good job with their goals. I asked people to reminisce about last year and tell me what resolutions they made and how that worked out for them. Shae Miller made a goal to start up her skating skills again and she attained this goal to her highest expectation. Cody Irwin had an ambitious goal to gain 35 pounds, and to his satisfaction, he was able to do so.
Many of our students here have not had the chance to meet our new school counselor, Miss Chris Berestecky (a.k.a. Miss B.). When asking her about her New Year’s resolutions from last year, I was touched with her response. Miss B. began to tell me that she has been a widow for about four years and it has just been her and her daughter who is currently in 8th grade. It was New Year’s 2007 when Miss B. decided to put full trust in Christ and to be content with where she was at that time. That was her goal, and that was her prayer. It was only two weeks later, on January 14, 2007, that her now fiancé gave her a call. “I think God knew that I wouldn’t last long, so he blessed me with a loving and caring man to take care of me and my daughter for now and forever as quickly as the second week of January” says Miss B. Now Miss B. is to be married on June 6th, 2008, and praises God for the blessing that He gave her and her young daughter.
What do you think? Are making New Year’s resolutions a thing of the past, or an opportunity to make you a better person? It is never too late to make a goal for yourself; if you did not make one on the first of the month, make one by the end. That is my challenge that I am leaving you all with.
