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Hope you’re having a good new year so far! Is this still a day off for you? It is for us, but tomorrow works begins again for Jim and Jesse starts back to school Wednesday.

A friend posted this on Facebook last week neat the end of the year:

“The year is almost over, and the years of my life are growing few, but time does not change my Lord. New lamps are taking the place of old; perpetual change is on all things, but our Lord is the same. Force overturns the hills, but no conceivable power can affect the eternal God. Nothing in the past, the present, or the future can cause Jehovah to be unkind to me. My soul, rest in the eternal kindness of the Lord, who treats thee as one near of kin. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

Blessed, blessed thoughts.

This was posted by another friend on Facebook:

Good habits are not made on birthdays, nor Christian character at the New Year. The workshop of character is everyday life. The uneventful and commonplace hour is where the battle is lost or won.

She quoted from another friend’s Facebook and hadn’t gotten a reply back yet as to whether the quote was original with her. But it is a good one. Good habits can start with resolutions, but until they get worked down into the “uneventful and commonplace,” they’ll be the kind that fade out by March.

And I saw this one on our youth pastor’s wife’s Twitter. It doesn’t directly mention the new year, but it certainly applies:

Why would you panic at your loss of control when you can rest in the arms of the One who, in righteousness and grace, controls all things? ~ Paul David Tripp

Why? I don’t know, but I do. But I need to remember Who does have everything under control and trust Him.

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