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2006 Soap Box Archives A Brand New Year Well here it comes, a shiny, brand new year. Time for New Year’s resolutions and aspirations as to what we can accomplish in the next twelve months. Probably the most popular New Year’s resolution is to lose weight. So many of us put on a few extra pounds over the holidays and save the guilty feelings for that extra piece of pumpkin pie until after we’ve rung in the new year, proclaiming that on the first day of the year we will begin that painful regimen known as a diet. Then we decide that since the New Year begins on a weekday we may as well wait until the first of the week, which becomes the first of the next month and by March the guilt has worn off and we’ve decided those extra pounds don’t look that bad after all and we needed some new clothes anyway. We’ve got a new Senate and Congress and it will be inte resting to see what direction they take the nation in. And I’ve got a feeling that it won’t take long to find out. You can’t help but wonder what will happen on the international scene in the coming year. Will Iran continue to defy the rest of the planet and continue to build their nuclear weapons? Will the United Nations continue to do nothing about it? Will the ‘07 version of the Asian Flu be containable? Will we have another Katrina type storm? Will there be another terrorist attack on American soil? These and so many other questions plague America and if you let them they can drive you so far up the wall that you can get vertigo. There is a beautiful prayer that goes: “God grant me the serenity t o accept the things I cannot change, to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference”. That is a very wise attitude. There are things we have no control over and things we do and it all goes back to that old saying of accentuating the positive, to change the things that go wrong in our little sphere of influence and leave the things we can’t handle in the capable hands of Almighty God. I have decided that each day is a gift given to us in immaculate condition and at the end of the day we give the gift back to God and the condition in which we give it back decides what kind of person we are. I have come to the conclusion that I can only live one minute at a time and if I make that minute count for something and do the same with the next minutes and the next ones the first thing you know it’s time to call it a day, one you can feel good about. We can’t live tomorrow until it gets here but we can sure make the here and now c ount whether in our work, our relationships or our good deeds. Why don’t you give it a try? Just make whatever you’re doing right now the most important thing you’ll do today. Here’s
wishing you all a healthy, prosperous, deliriously happy Pray for our troops. What do you think God Bless America Charlie Daniels December 29, 2006
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