Don't Stop Making New Year's Resolutions!

"Tomorrow, Tomorrow, Tomorrow"
	The poet wrote one day.
As if each new tomorrow
	Was just like yesterday.

Well, a new Tomorrow is coming
	That will put an end to it all
For at the stroke of midnight
	(And the dropping of the ball)

It will be not just a new day
	But the starting of a year.
As we face the century's penultimate
	That one might face it with fear.

Or one may have hope and confidence
	As the year is newly born
And greet each new tomorrow
	As God's blessed morn.

Some say they'll make no resolution
	As in the days of yore
Because they have kept none of them
	That they had made before.

One need not make a resolution
	If one has reached perfection.
Nor if in despair they find life
	Only worthy of rejection.

But if you find life worth living,
	Possessed of some great hope
Then a New Year's resolution
	Will help you be able to cope.

So pledge that each new tomorrow
	You will endeavor to improve
Until God calls you into His presence
	As from this life you move.

Then should you miss your mark
	And not make it to perfection,
You will still be much better off
	For moving in that direction.

So don't give up on God
	Nor on yourself and others
But try again to improve relations
	Between your sisters & brothers	

If "entropy" teaches us that
	Every thing tends to run down
Then not to put up a struggle
	Will simply mean you will drown

Thus, your New Year's Resolutions 
	Will mean that you are alive
And against the evil within or without
	You will continue to strive

Make a New Year's Resolution
	Trusting in strength from above
And know that success or failure
	You are still safe in God's love

You see, it is good to set a goal,
	And to start to pack your grip
Should you fail to reach your destination
 	You can still enjoy the trip.

Dr. G. H. Van Sandt Dec. 1997