MEANINGFUL DAYS

 MEANINGFUL DAYS

The start is always super. Staying awake on new year's Eve enjoying a drink or bite with family as the old year is making the last step out the door. Some people like it while enjoying stage performances from their favourite music or comic acts, to see off the old year with a smile or hearty laughter. Churches also like to fill up with worshipers keen to say a big thank you to God for preserving them over the whole year, as well as say a prayer for divine guidance into the new year. Starting with God if you wish to call it. How did you welcome the new year? Whichever the method, the new year's jump provides a point for reflection, re- thinking and reorientation for our lives. It's a new chance to become what we dream of and to move towards achieving our life objectives. So, do you already have new year's resolutions? Are you already working on your plans? Have you already done a complete successful week? Kudos to all of us who are 100 percent on it. The question is how good we are at keeping our resolutions. How did you perform with your last year's resolutions? Could you have been discouraged making new ones this year due to your poor performance on them last year? The solution may be to make new ones or renew them every 1st day of a new month or every week. Maybe fewer resolutions may be better and easier. Maybe something to do once a month or every two weeks. Or even something to do today. What is most important is beginning and doing. If you fail, it's okay to replan and do another attempt. God wants every of our days to be meaningful and we should endeavour to count our every 'today' as meaningful. For God's help, let's join the psalmist in the prayer of Psalms 90:12, 'Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.' That is the way to live as wise people. So help us God.

@Stephen Mungai