Happy New Year!!!

Hey Everyone! Hmm...how should I start this blog off how about this....HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!! Hows that for a great way to start off this post! My first blog update of 2014. Wow! Can you believe 2013 is already behind us? Does it feel like you had so much to do and so little of time to do it? As you look over your year of 2013 what are some highlights of that year that were you most favorite? Maybe it was someone in your family that got married, or someone in your family who got a promotion at there job. Then also what were some of the lows of 2013? Maybe it was someone who got diagnosed with Cancer, Or maybe you got demoted at your job, or maybe you lost your job,or maybe someone in your life you were close to passed away. Whatever your year looked like I want you to know Christ was with you through the high and the low through the calmness of the year and through the storms that you battled that year. Now I want to focus on 2014 because we are already beginning to write out our personal story book that we hold every year! In 2012 we had a story to tell but it was different than 2013. Life comes and goes its like a roller coaster. You get on an before you know it the ride of that year is over! 2013 will be different then 2013 because we meet new people we try new things and we experience different situations. So what is your 2014 new year resolution? It may be I am going to work hard and save money to live on my own. Or maybe from a parents perspective to listen to my kids better then I did before. Or I am going to reach my goal of getting that job I want so badly. Whatever it is God will guide you and he will walk right along side you as you strive to reach that new goal you have set up for yourself. I have a quote I want to share with y'all today and its from a well known Author, you may have heard of him he wrote the book series the Chronicles of Narnia...thats right C.S Lewis and this quote says "You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." That quote says a lot right there and I think for some and I speak for myself as well but I think when a new year comes we always think we can't set a goal but goals are just accomplishments in the making. Your everyday life has some insight of the goals you will one day achieve and you will. Having faith and believing in yourself is a BIG part of just helping you once again reach that goal. Goals don't happen overnight. Its a process a learning process. It might take a couple of stumbles and falls to reach it but let me tell you something Mighty Warriors...it can happen if you just believe and keep the faith that one day that accomplishment will come true. I hope y'all followed that. I want to wrap up with a prayer and this prayer is called the Serenity Prayer and I want this to be your prayer for this new year that we are in. 

God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.

Living one day at a time;
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;
Taking, as He did, this sinful world
as it is, not as I would have it;
Trusting that He will make all things right
if I surrender to His Will;
That I may be reasonably happy in this life
and supremely happy with Him
Forever in the next.
Amen.

--Reinhold Niebuhr

That is my prayer for this year, and now I want to end with a song by a couple of great country artist and I love how this song says to not look back and to not turn around and to also not back down. Enjoy! The only way I know! Luke Bryan, Jason Aldean, Eric Church
I hope y'all have a great and blessed day today!
~Mighty Mariah

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
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