Fresh Starts
Rikki Permenter, MAMFC, Th. M.
For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.
- Ecclesiastes 3:1
It is the end of the school year. Seniors are graduating (kindergarten, high school, and college). Life is full of recitals, awards banquets, championships, and final games. Things are coming to a natural end. It is the ebb and flow of life in America. Church programs wrap up with the school year, and in a few short months, everyone gets a fresh start. There truly is a season for everything and summer is the season for ends and new beginnings.
In your life do you think you need a fresh start? Do you feel the desire to turn over a new leaf or begin a new journey? Sometimes you think you need to wait until January to being again. Hear me here; you don’t! Any Monday is just as good as any other for a fresh start. Let’s put things into perspective - new years resolutions don’t work. Small things you add into your daily schedule work. If you want to start regularly flossing the best way to get there is to start by flossing one tooth each day after you brush. Soon the two things become connected. It is exponentially easier to jump from flossing one tooth daily to flossing all of your teeth than the jump is from not flossing at all to flossing one tooth daily. You can trick your mind into creating a big habit out of a small one.
Since this is a season for change - let’s be proactive about the small changes you want to make in your life - hit your fresh start running.
This article can be found in print in the monthly Baptist Association of Southeast Louisiana newsletter.
