Don’t let static cling ruin your New Year!
As I walk through the house, I hesitate turning on a light without touching wood or something first. Why, you ask? Because I know I am going to get zapped! Yep! The static season is upon us and with it comes every kind of shock you can name or mention. And what it does to your hair is just criminal. Some people combat this effect with humidifier and other such static fighting agents. Have you ever suffered the humility of finding out you have been walking around with a sock stuck firmly to your sweater? Finally, someone with compassion peeled it off and handed it to you with a smile saying, “don’t you just hate static cling?” You want a hole to open beneath you so you can slip out of sight with whatever dignity you have left.
Certain people are a lot like static cling. They serve no purpose except to cling to and go along for the ride. They contribute nothing, and when your charge is used up they fall away like the parasite they mimic. They do nothing to enhance your outward appearance nor do they encourage you to listen to your common sense. Egging you on when you are not presenting yourself in your best light.
Tonight multitudes of people will be out celebrating the changing of the calendar. A new year will take up residence. It is time for us to stand back from the mirror and take a good long look. Do we have static cling? Is there a person or a habit that clings to us without making us better people? Is the marking of the New Year to see how much alcohol you can consume, proving your prowess against a bottle? Are you the one who is clinging because you have no direction of your own? Everyone can change if they are given the right incentives. Ask yourself, in five years where will you be? The people you celebrate with tonight: do they want what is best for you? Are they your static cling, or are you theirs? It is a New Year tonight, let’s make it the beginning of being a better person, to others and to yourself! A new beginning can be as close as a prayer away.
As parents we need to keep things in perspective for our children. If they are allowed to stay up to ring in the New Year, have them before the clock strikes twelve, say what they are thankful for this year and how they want to improve in the coming year. Then hold each other accountable for the resolutions that were made.
We as authors love to play on the magic of the clock striking twelve, just like in Cinderella. The bewitching hour, or whatever the world wants to call it, seems to hold some fascination in our minds, that anything is possible if we wish hard enough. That is true in fact, the Bible says all things are possible through Jesus Christ.
Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:
Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.
For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:
I Peter 3:8-10
Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
1 Corinthians 5:7-8
That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;
And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
Ephesians 4:22-24