Monday’s Mantra

Your ride is coming to an end.

Please remain seated with your seatbelt fastened.

When the clock hits 12, you will be allowed to exit to the right.

You will then take the first day of this New Year and follow the line to the 2017 track.

As you make your way over to the New Year’s track, please remember to do the following:

    Let go of bitterness and resentment.

•  Leave past failures behind and take only what you learned from them with     you.
•  Drop negativity in the trashcan to your right. And if you didn’t quite get rid of it all, no worries; there will be another trashcan on your left just ahead.
•  Look through old wounds and weaknesses. For some of you, you only need to resolve to dump the old wound or weakness and it will be gone. There will be a dumpster up ahead to throw it in. Remember to not look back. For those of you who have a hard time letting go and require more work than that, we will be exploring that in the new ride.
• Any doctrine that doesn’t line up with His love letters has got to go. If you still have questions, there will be a few tracks to explore the truths in the new ride.
•  Let go of that attitude of poverty and throw it in the burning bush just before you enter the car for the new ride. His monetary and non-monetary blessings await you in and through every new circumstance you will encounter on our ride in the New Year.

Some things you will want to take with you as you enter this new ride:

•  Faith; it only needs to be the size of a mustard seed, but remember, that means “pure” faith with no mixed doctrine!
•  2016’s greatest memories.
•  Any valuable lessons you learned from your previous rides/years
•  Your favorite life verse, and if you don’t have one yet, get one before entering. Ask a friend for help or just open up “the Book!”
•  Resolve realistically. Don’t make resolutions you have no intention on keeping but when you resolve – which is to partner with the Holy Spirit—you will succeed in all you endeavor on this ride through 2017.
•  An attitude of gratitude- it will take you up the impending hills of the new ride.
•  Kindness- you will need this for the strangers you will meet as well as for the people who are unkind.
• Peace is essential and cannot be found on the side of the track but it is within you as you take time to sit and be still in the ride.
• Joy-though it may tend to get a bit buried with the upcoming twists and turns in the New Year, just remember to stir it up with one of His promises and/or your life verse.
•  Grace-there will be many people in this ride with you that will need your unmerited favor, just as it has been given to you. Take plenty of this with you before you get in the ride! There will be grace stations along the way to replenish.
•  Love-this is the greatest and most important virtue to bring with you as we enter into the New Year for to love others is to have accepted His gift of love and grace to you.

Fasten your seat-belts, friends . . . Here we go!

Love and laughter,

Evinda