PRISON FELLOWSHIP: New Year

“This is what the LORD says—he who made a way through the sea, a path through the mighty waters … See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.”

It’s a New Year, the time for making resolutions that we never intend to keep! That’s not quite true, of course. It’s good for us to work toward goals and dreams for the future, but let’s face it – it’s hard to keep our resolutions; if we’d all lost all the weight that’d we’d committed to every New Year, none of us would even exist anymore!

The following post originally appeared on the Prison Fellowship International website on January 3, 2011.

Several of my neighbors began the new year suffering from the ill effects of their year-end revelry.  What must have seemed like a lot of fun as the old year drew to a close, morphed into nauseous aching pain as the new year dawned.