Fit Bit (Success is the “TRY”)
Happy New Year!!
Jan 5,2017. By this time of the New Year usually I have
already broken my resolutions. How are
you doing on that?
A New Year or a new day, for me it doesn’t really
matter. I need to start fresh moment by moment. Sometimes my vice is ice cream, sometimes it
is over spending, sometimes a burdened attitude. Everyday I have something that I really need
to leave in the past and start fresh. If
I give myself a bottom line such as January 1, I am going to change and then I
don’t change, I can get discouraged and give up. What I do to be successful is continually
try. I have to walk in continual
forgiveness and keep pressing forward in order to reach my goals.
I recently celebrated 12 years of sobriety. I haven’t drunk alcohol for 12 years and I
pray that I will continue this path. I
am 54 years old. The first time I quit
drinking I was 13. I spent 29 years
trying and failing to stay sober. I
hurt many people along that path. Jesus
is the only way I’ve bee able to let go of my regretted past and live in my
present moment with strength and courage to keep trying to be a better me. I used to think if I could only quit drinking
I would naturally be better. Not true,
after 29 years of horribly destructive behavior I was faced with a plethora of
character defects that have not easily left me.
Yet I am not defined by what I am not, I am defined by who I am. I am a beautiful child of God. So are you!
This New Year, this new moment, be encouraged to leave your
past in the past and press forward toward the mark with the help of Jesus. True wellness isn’t reaching your goals; it’s
your committed effort to try.
Philippians 3:13-14
“Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I
do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those
things which are before, 14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high
calling of God in Christ Jesus.”
Be fit, be blessed and enjoy is Happy New Year!
Kimberly
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