Have you made

new year’s resolutions.

What do you resolve to do this year?

Write a book?

Lose 20 pounds?

Pay off your debts?

What if you shifted your

resolutions from doing to being?

Resolve to be kinder.

To be gentler.

To be braver.

To be more compassionate.

To be bolder.

To be more loving.

More encouraging.

Could this year be different?

Could you be different?

Man looks at the outward appearance,

but the LORD looks at the heart.

We must be careful with our lives,

for Christ's sake, because

it would seem that they are

the only lives we are going to have

in this puzzling and perilous world,

and so they are very precious

and what we do with them

matters enormously.