...and a Happy New Year!

It has been a week since the New Year has come. Did you resolve to get better grades this new semester? Study, study, study. Maybe lose a pound here and there or pack on some density? Don't miss a single day of your workout schedule. Or perhaps it's something a little more personal like mine Whatever your resolution(s) may be, I'm just here to encourage you to fight on, as I've been trying to do so myself.

I personally have never had a New Year's resolution, but this year I've finally been hit with a reason important enough to give it a go. We all know of the infamous three-week period until everyone's resolutions go downhill. Once this timeframe expires, the jam-packed Bally's and 24HR Fitness empty. People reactivate their Facebook account or maybe buy another pack of Turkish blend Camels. It's become such a common occurrence that it simply serves as another excuse for people to drop their resolutions year after year.

The lack of extended success has been one of the factors that pushed me away from creating New Year resolutions too in fear of wasted effort...until now. I mean, there is the point of all this hopeless yearning if it'll end with me, let's say, on my leather couch, ice cream carton of my favorite Mint Chocolatey Chip in one hand and an Xbox controller in the other. If I'm going to give this a go, then it's going to be a solid, no-backing-out go. No excuses. No leeway. I've resolved not only to keep from giving up on my resolution but to achieve it with rocketing streams of glorious colors and have resolved upon that in an "Inception" of resolutions.



We have survived yet another "End of the world" experience, as the Mayans predicted, in turn with the closing of 2012, a long and wonderful year. Now let's make something of this grand year of '13 and improve, better, change, transform, revolutionize, etc. (whichever fits you best) ourselves before the next one arrives. Who knows? I've heard the Incas predicted prehistoric behemoths were coming back in an unrighteous fury to take mankind down to the fossilized depths of Dino-hell.

"Fight the good fight..." (2 Tim 6:12)