I started along time ago with making changes in my life and then I decided that I do not need new years to start doing the things that I need to do in my life right now. You have people who have chosen to go on diets and people who have decided to get a new gob, but are these things really important. It seems to me that the change they should be making in their lives should have to deal with you lord. They should only want to make changes that will impact their after life. why do we continue to worry about things that will not be there after we are gone. Is it that some of us still have not let go of those wordily things that we hold dear.
My niece and I were talking and she reminded me that the house had to be clean before the new year or it will be dirty all year long. Or that you had to cook hopping johns to bring you wealth or luck. Depending on where you are from, I am sure that most of us know all of these old traditions and superstitions that will result from not doing them. I was reared in the south. There are so many I know. My grandmother, although she was a godly woman would live by them. I use to often think that they were true until I remembered my pastor saying that you should be weary of these things such as superstitions because we hear them so much we live by them when infact there could be evil linked to certain things. For example My grandmother believed in root and although I grew up believing it. I do not now. I do not believe that someone can cast evil over someone else to cause that much harm. I realized that the further south you go, like where my boyfriend is from, the more the believe. I have never seen this in the bible but we tend to believe what we hear. These superstitions were meant to put fear into Gods people. We have enough to worry about without giving ourselves unnessary fears. I try to warn some of my friends as the new year draws near to just be cautious about what you do and why you do it. we should always want to know the history around the things we do. If we did look into the things we do than we would realize that most of them do not exist but int the minds of the people who make them up.
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