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MONDAY MEDITATION
How About a New Year’s Prayer Instead of a New Year’s Resolution?
Pivot your mindset and watch the year unfold with gratitude
Spirit, guide me into prayer. Hear my voice as it blends with Yours and all the love you have for me. Help me to move forward in 2023 in the way that You know is perfect and right for me, not what others think. May it be so.
After all, prayer is a form of asking (a petition, if you will) where resolution is an intention. Both are good, right? But think about why so many people fail at resolutions. They have good intentions but something falters along the way. Without a plan, resolutions tend to fail because even the best intention of “I want to lose weight” needs a plan in order for you to make it happen.
And, who here (go ahead and raise your hand … and your head — no shame involved here) can say they have met their resolutions?
The word resolution is also connected to the words determination, single-mindedness, firmness, promise, pledge, promise, undertaking, willpower, inflexibility, stubbornness, doggedness, obstinacy, settlement, and proposition. In the correct situation, these words all make sense.
