Resolutions Anyone

Resolutions Anyone?© by Brenda Tymecki [email protected] Message: Mom is packing away the Christmas ornaments,...

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Resolutions Anyone?© by Brenda Tymecki [email protected]

Message:

Mom is packing away the Christmas ornaments, thinking of the Christmas which has passed by in a blur, the end of another year, and the uncertainties of a new year . . . and making those resolutions, (except the one on keeping Jesus at the center of our lives).

Bible Reference: Cast:

1

Set:

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Props:

nativity scene, Christmas decorations

Time:

3

Script: (bring in boxes for repacking Christmas ornaments) Well another holiday season almost over. Hard to believe it has been a week since Christmas. Where does the time go. Remember how our parents always told us how time speeds up as we get older and we laughed at them thinking what did they know Guess who is laughing now. I always start packing up my holiday decorations on New Year’s weekend. It signifies the end of a year and the holiday season. After this weekend we are back into the daily grind of life. Today is New Year’s Eve. Now I find this holiday one I don’t get too excited about. Half the time because I cannot stay awake until midnight. But I have never really been a big fan of this holiday. Maybe because so may people start talking about their resolutions for next year. How next year is going to be better, things are going to change and then in a year from now that same conversation and resolutions are going to be talked about again. As if they were never discussed last year. I find it interesting what the major resolutions are for most years. One - get fit and lose weight. Well considering every time I turn on the news I am hearing how we are becoming an obese nation I figure we aren’t doing to good on keeping this resolution. Quit drinking or smoking. Okay holidays bring on stress, I don’t care what anyone says. Why do a lot of people drink and smoke - STRESS. So trying to stop something like that now, you are just aiming for defeat. Get out of debt - again, listen to the news about how much people have on their charge cards. We just went through holiday shopping and cha-chinging the plastic. First credit Resolutions Anyone?© Page 1 ©Copyright Brenda Tymecki 2007 Published with permission by DramaShare®

card bill you get next year you will probably have a good cry and say it is too overwhelming to deal with and pay the minimum and take all next year to pay off this Christmas in time for next Christmas to roll around and repeat the cycle. Others are spend more time with friends, enjoy life more, get organized, learn something new. And we say this as we are partying the night away tonight still in the spirit of the holidays. Then next week when you get back to work and a desk piled high with work from the vacation you took for the holidays. And the kids get back into their activities and life starts getting hectic again you completely forget any of the resolutions you made. I am just as guilty as the next person in that respect. One of the few resolutions never mentioned is keep God and Jesus up front and center in our lives. Why is that? All during Christmas I try and keep the true reason for Christmas in my heart and mind. The birth of Jesus. And I think I do a pretty good job. I think others do also. But then like everything else regular life starts creeping back in and we forget. Church some days seems like a burden. Maybe this year I will make a resolution. Keeping God and Jesus more up front and center in my life. Every day just thank god for one simple thing that happened. Like a nice gentle snow fall, or no bills in the mail today. No cat throwing up on me in the morning. Simple life things. And trying to reduce stress by saying you take it God. Why is that so hard for us to do? Let’s see if I can put away my nativity without putting God and Jesus away with it.

Resolutions Anyone?© Page 2 ©Copyright Brenda Tymecki 2007 Published with permission by DramaShare®