New Year's Day

 New Year’s Resolutions 

The Imitation of Christ 

Every Year people make New Year’s Resolutions. 

A long list of things they want to change or accomplish during the New Year. 

But after a few months they all go out the window. 

And ultimately nothing is accomplished. 

In the Imitation of Christ;

Which is the most widely published and read book next to the Bible,

Thomas a Kempis wrote,

“If every year we rooted out just one fault.

We would soon become perfect.”

Rather than make a long list of things you want to change or accomplish.

Pick just one thing,

and work on it all year long. 

Even if you, fail at it in March,

Start again in April.

If you fail at it in June,

Start again in July. 

Just work on one thing. 

And at the end of the Year,

You would be surprised how far you have come. 

And then the next Year,

Choose something else;

And work on that one thing all year long. 

And soon as the years go by,

One will see how far one has come. 

And how much one has accomplished.