This New Year brings a chance to begin again. It has not been lived before. In spite of past mistakes or regrets from last year, we can start anew and resolve:

 To forgive. To be courteous. To flee self-pity.

 To pursue peace. To keep a promise. To reject negativity.

 To encourage others. To be happy anyway. To make a new friend.

 To be a good example. To live one day at a time.

 To count our blessings, to always give thanks. To stand against wrong.

 To sing, to pray, to rejoice. To be a blessing each day. To celebrate the gift of life.

 To weep with those who weep. To believe the best is yet to be.

 To do away with wrong habits. To avoid wrong and embrace right.

 To smile, laugh and spread sunshine. To be happy with our time on earth.

 To make yourself a gift and give it away. To let the past be just that…the past.

 To be persistent, diligent and faithful. To find something good in everything.

 To have hope in spite of circumstances. To count other’s interest above your own.

 To appreciate life’s wondrous treasures. To have a good attitude and a merry heart.

 To bury the past for you are a new person. To fill our days with meaning and purpose.

 To encourage, exhort, and to help those in pain.

 To refrain from criticizing and finding fault.

 To receive each new day as a gift from God.

 To be a champion and more than a conqueror.

 To look at more blue skies, rainbows, snowflakes, and roses.

 To treat everyone as if this might be the very last time we see him or her on this earth.

 To live everyday of this New Year leaving precious memories in the lives of others.

      HAPPY NEW YEAR dear reader. May  this year be the best year of your life!