Your New Year's Resolutions are firmly in place by now - or firmly in the rearview mirror, broken and forgotten. Whatever the case we all look ahead to 2017 as a year full of potential.
We hope this new year is filled with a number of good days. Perhaps we should consider the good in our numbered days.
The turn of the phrase here isn't just to be cute, but to highlight a change in perspective.If we go forward in 2017 looking and hoping for a number of good days, then we are living passively.
I want to live actively and I encourage you to do the same. What sparks that initiative? What could provoke us from abandoning a passive stance, waiting on 2017 to bring blessings on us, to an active advancement, pushing through 2017 to create blessings for others and ourselves?
The answer I believe is a change in perspective. Consider that your days are numbered (see Psalm 39:4). Our time here on Earth is brief. The Bible likens it to a vapor or your breath on a cold day - there for a moment and then gone.
John F. Kennedy challenged Americans in 1961 to "ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country." He asked Americans to have a change in perspective.
I'm no JFK, but I too ask you to change your perspective. Concern yourself not with a number of good days - concern yourself with the good you can do in your numbered days.
As a tutor and the founder of Strength in Numbers Tutoring, I like to think about the different implications of the phrase we use as the name of our organization. It's a new perspective for me too to consider this spin on "strength in numbers" - that there's strength in numbering our days and using that to motivate us to do good in this year to come.
The turn of the phrase here isn't just to be cute, but to highlight a change in perspective.If we go forward in 2017 looking and hoping for a number of good days, then we are living passively.
I want to live actively and I encourage you to do the same. What sparks that initiative? What could provoke us from abandoning a passive stance, waiting on 2017 to bring blessings on us, to an active advancement, pushing through 2017 to create blessings for others and ourselves?
The answer I believe is a change in perspective. Consider that your days are numbered (see Psalm 39:4). Our time here on Earth is brief. The Bible likens it to a vapor or your breath on a cold day - there for a moment and then gone.
John F. Kennedy challenged Americans in 1961 to "ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country." He asked Americans to have a change in perspective.
I'm no JFK, but I too ask you to change your perspective. Concern yourself not with a number of good days - concern yourself with the good you can do in your numbered days.
As a tutor and the founder of Strength in Numbers Tutoring, I like to think about the different implications of the phrase we use as the name of our organization. It's a new perspective for me too to consider this spin on "strength in numbers" - that there's strength in numbering our days and using that to motivate us to do good in this year to come.
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