HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! I apologize for the 2 week hiatus. With 4 children, I'm sure you can imagine that Christmas time is a time of much business in our house!! I hope you had a wonderful Christmas and that 2010 is off to a glorious start for you. This is an awesome time of year. As I suggested in my last post, this is a time for resolutions; a time of rededication and new focus. According to comScore, Inc. in January, there is a 99% jump in web visits to Weight Watchers and a 42% jump in traffic on career sites. 1 million boxes of smoking cessation gum, lozenges and patches were sold in January 2008, and 12% of gym memberships are sold in January. Roughly 50% of Americans make New Year's resolutions, and sadly, 25% fail after one week. I've hit on the most common resolutions - lose weight, quit smoking, find a new job, but what about the rededication and refocus of our lives to Jesus? Have you ever heard anyone say that they are going to spend more time in prayer this year? Or they are going to read the bible in its entirety this year? What about making it to more than the one Sunday service on a weekly basis? These are the things that are really important; the things that will last. I think we forget that James equates our lives with a "mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes" (4:14 NIV). If any of your resolutions include following the world's view of happiness, keep in mind that "There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death." (Proverbs 14:12 NIV) Seek those things that will draw you closer to Christ on a daily basis.

On a separate note.....my second website is up. Check it out at http://www.provemenowherewith.com/. Feel free to submit a story or just send us words and prayers of encouragement. God moved for me in mighty ways in 2009, so I'm expecting Him to blow my mind in 2010. I wish the same for you!!!