Lord, I thank you for this little bit of quiet time. A new year is getting ready to start. Help me gather my thoughts so that I can make a wise commitment. I want to run a steady course this year. I am weak. Help me to run the race right. Above all things I ask that you be at the center of my life this next year. Make me to be continually aware of your presence. And help me to discern your voice even when it seems you are silent. For I know that wisdom cries out in the streets. It just needs to be discerned. Give me ears to hear. Open my ears and my eyes so that I can see your face. I want to know you more. Have mercy on me. I don't deserve to walk in grace. I have often failed you. But grant this anyway because your grace is good. Fill me and use me, an unworthy vessel. I want to know love. True love. I want to know your glory. I want to be your glory. Create in me a new heart, O Lord. Make it clean. Let me be a vessel of your Holy Spirit, overflowing. This is what I want for the new year.

I also have some goals. I would like to get a start on this web site. I would like to finish my latest book. I would like to get on the radio by the end of the year. I would like to get on square financial footing again with a steady flow of income. I would like to teach my children music. And before summer, I would like to start a family Bible Study.

There are also some things I would not like to do but resolve to do. I do not particularly want to do excersizes with Lisa. But she needs me to help her. So I will. I don't much want to work out. But I will make it a priority to reach optimal health. I resolve to find a healthy routine and stay with it as soon as my herniated disk is better. I don't care to be the housekeeper. But I would like to fill all of the duties Iona has been doing - washing dishes and clothes, grocery shopping, getting up early to take the boys to school, cooking supper. By February, Lord. I pray she find a place to stay and some income. Lord, I resolve to continue to love Lisa and to date her. I resolve to be her man so that she has something to look forward to in life. And I resolve to be a man of prayer.

Lord, I feel at peace with these resolutions and goals. They seem to be good and from you. I ask you to bless them and to empower me so that I can have focus and success. Without your strength I will fail. With your strength I can do all things. I thank you for this new year. Anoint and bless. You are the Christ. Be real to me and to others who know me this coming year. May the whole world know your glory and love.