North Douglas Church

Someone has said that by February most of the resolutions people made in January have fallen by the wayside – someone else has said that a New Year's resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other!

In January, a lot of people resolve to lose weight. By February, that's an easy resolution to abandon. Of course, the older you get the tougher it is to lose, because your body and your fat have come to be really good friends. One lady noted that if she could watch her life story played backwards she'd see a great weight loss success story!

Health and lifestyle improvement aren't always in the eyes of the beholder. The other day I pointed to a couple across a restaurant and said to my wife, "That's us in ten years." She replied, "That's a mirror."

Then there was the little boy who watched with fascination as his mother rubbed a revitalizing beauty cream into her skin. He asked, "Mommy, why are you rubbing that stuff all over your face?" She explained that it would make her look younger and more beautiful. After a few minutes, she took a tissue and began removing the cream. Her son asked, "What's the matter, Mommy? Are you giving up?"

Keeping our New Year's resolutions all year long would be possible in a perfect world. In a perfect world . . .

A person would feel as good at 50 as he did at 17 and would actually be as smart at 50 as he thought he was at 17.
Doing what was good for you would be what you enjoyed doing the most.
Pro sports players would complain about teachers receiving contracts worth millions of dollars.
The better the food tasted, the fewer calories it would have.
Warranties would be for 13 months, and products would fail at 12.
The more governments spent, the more they would accomplish.

by Tim Wesemann