An Old Prayer for Your New Year

With the start of a brand-new year on the horizon, in the next few days we will be reminded how inadequate we were in this past year. A wave of fresh and exciting advertising will challenge us to get up off the couch and fix what we think is broken in our lives. Soon we will be inundated with compelling ads on how to lose weight, or which gym to join to finally get in shape; how to think more positively, how to quit smoking or to quit that other ugly habit (whatever it might be); how to grow in our career with a new degree, or how to find satisfaction by feeling better about ourselves (Christie, 2025). It seems that we tried these things previously, and we were not very successful. This year it will be different--we will resolve to try again… but will we be successful?