Christmas is now over and we begin to think about New Year's Day! I had a very quiet Christmas, since Emma and I are laid up with injuries. I guess we are getting old! Ronnie drove us up to my parents and we were there with them and my sister and her family! It was a nice quiet day, with lots of food. We also endured watching the Celtics lose to the Lakers!
I was reading a book from Mark Batterson and it made me think about a New Year that is right around the corner, and how we do not know what is going to happen. But as a child of God we can only control the things we have control over, and then we must leave the rest up to God. In his book, he quoted Viktor Frankl, who went through the Nazi Concentration camps. Everything was taken from the Jewish prisoners. Their clothing, their personal items, everything was taken from them. They even took their names from them and gave them a number. Viktor Frankl said - "Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances."
Those are powerful words to remember as we go into 2009! The most important choice that we can make every day is your ATTITUDE! Your internal attitudes are always more important than the circumstances that are happening around us!
I want to encourage you to go in 2009 with a new determination that I will have the same attitude as Jesus Christ!
May God richly bless you with everything you need in 2009!
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