While we have just started a new year, it’s taken me a little longer to jot down the resolutions for the coming 12 months.
I’m hoping 2024 will be a good year, maybe a little better than 2023 and that I and our family will go through it without some of the challenges we faced the past 12 months.
Parts of this past year were much harder than some previous years, but we did overcome the difficulties through prayer and working together through them.
In the past several weeks I’ve seen all kinds of suggestions for the new year and some of them are surely worth trying.
One of my resolutions is to get some kind of exercise daily.
That is no matter what the weather might be on the outside, exercise regardless whether it’s braving the elements or doing something inside.
We had our five-yearold grandson the weekend of Christmas Eve. Getting up and down off the floor in doing things with him seemed a challenge which it shouldn’t be even at my age.
Exercising will help keeping me mentally more sharp, too, I believe. I’m going to suggest this one to my wife Pat as well.
In the past few years, I haven’t hunted as much as in the past and I could get plenty of exercise that way.
I’d like to do more hunting in 2024, that will help, but I have to find a substitute to that when I’m not.
Getting more sleep at night is another resolution. That sounds simple enough, but it can be more of a challenge than it should be for some reason.
Eat a little healthier. Makes sense when I think about it with some of the health issues I have.
These three are aimed at living a more healthy life and I think it’s time I do more of that.
Being more patient and tolerant in daily life, especially with others, when it would be much easier to go on and not do that. Listening to others and having the willingness to hear what they are saying is the key.
My final resolution is having faith and trust in the Lord at all times.
I must keep in mind that He won’t put before me in a 24-hour period more than He and I can handle.