So This Is The New Year

Resolutions seem to make up this holiday that we've created. Right after watching on tv the "ball drop" in New York City, there was a plethora of commercials about making yourself better. Subway with their "eat better resolution." Geico with their "save more money on your car insurance" resolution. Avalon with their "look more beautiful resolution."

The New Year is just an excuse for man to start over. Right when that clock turns twelve, we can hit the restart button on our lives and everything that we had done and messed up on simply gets lost in the vagueness of a time so foreignly known as 2009.

As for me... well, as cheesy as it sounds, God's love is my New Years.
It's more than an excuse for me to start over-- it's a reason. The only reason to learn to do things the right way. And I love it. Every time we experience God's grace, we get to hit the restart button, with God making himself completely oblivious to the fact that "last year" we messed up terribly.

The New Years is my favorite holiday, I think, because it says a lot about my life. It says that restarting things and making new resolutions isn't a bad thing. And you can never have too many of them. Heck... humanity's made two thousand and ten new starts in this world, along with four thousand something years before that.

I have a resolution for 2010 and it is this:
I shall journal ever day. It could be a paragraph, a sentence, a word, a drawing, a happy face or a frowny face. Something. Anything to show how I feel or what's going on in my life or just whatever.
And it could be anywhere. On this blog. In my journal (what a novel idea), on a random piece of paper. But I have to save everything.

This is my resolution. My new start.
Happy New Year