Christmas is over and 2004 is gone. KB has gone home and I have another week of vacation before heading back to Charlotte myself. It feels odd to be almost finished with school again. I have an extremely light semster with my hardest class being microbiology (one of the hardest classes in the science department according to many students), but honestly, 12 hours is still only 12 hours.
Most people make New Year’s resolutions at the beginning of a New Year. I honestly don’t ever remember writing down a resolution before and I don’t really want to start now because I know that whatever I resolve to do, I can’t do on my own. So many people start out with good intentions each year but without God it’s useless because we are so incredibly weak on our own.
We need to first ask what it is that God wants us to do before we try and make up our own lists based on what we think it is we need to do.
There was a story that I was reading in The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands by Dr. Laura Schlessinger that I read a little while ago:
A grandfather was talking to his grandson. “Grandson,” he said, “there are two wolves living in my heart and they are at war with each other. One is vicious and cruel, the other is wise and kind.”
“Grandfather,” said the alarmed grandson,” which one will win?”
“The one I feed,” said the grandfather.
Such a short story with such a big meaning. I think if I were going to make a New Year’s resolution now or anytime it would be to feed the right wolf. Sometimes in our pride I think we keep feeding the wrong wolf. We fall into the trap that we are entitled to nice things and fight by the world’s rules of cruelty and neglect in order to achieve it. How can we expect to become better people when we constantly starve the thing in us that fights for what is right, wise and good?
Don’t kid yourself. If you work according to the world’s rules instead of God’s, then you will become like the world instead of the God you claim as your life. If life is hard, don’t feed the cruelty, feed the kindess. God will bless you in your faithfulness and obedience.
One last thought from Psalm 71:
Your righteousness reaches to the skies, O God, you who have done great things. Who, O God, is like you? Though you have made me see troubles, many and bitter, you will restore my life again; from the depths of the earth you will again bring me up. You will increase my honor and comfort me once again.
May the Lord bless you in this brand new year and remember to feed the right wolf.
neumatikos 
I’m reading that book now. Its got some good stuff in it
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http://homepage.mac.com/demark/tsunami/9.html
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By the time Valerie got done with it, she was really jumpy and afraid that she was going to be doing it all wrong.
Good book, a little too much yelling.
KB
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