Well, of course, I made resolutions like I do every year.  They always include a list of things that I never actually accomplish.  My standards are:  reading all the way through the Bible, exercising daily, eating less sugar, and giving up Diet Pepsi.  I think that everybody does this, but I always make it about a month before I have completely given up.   Last year I managed to lose 30 lbs or so, and promptly got pregnant with miss Piper.  So I now have about 15 pounds to lose to get back down to where I was.  Steve is on board with me on the whole eating no sugar thing, so that will help.  Plus the dear soul refused me when I begged him to run to Burda's for a 9:00 fountain Diet Pepsi.  WHAAAAH!  Never mind that I told him I was giving the stuff up, never mind that I told him that you shouldn't let me indulge.  Isn't he a meanie?  Oh well. 

On the bible reading front, I know that I will not make it all the way through the Bible this year.  I don't have too many uninturrupted minutes to do that.  But I am going to purchase the Bible on MP3 and try to listen to it.  Plus I intend to make it through at least 4 books and actually do some inductive study on them.  I am working on Mark.  I think that is probably more realistic with 5 little people, one of them a newborn, Homeschooling, and a co-op to prepare several classes for. 

So in light of my New Year's Resolutions, I am posting the top 10of Jonathon Edwards' extremely thoughtful resolutions.  If you want to see the whole list of 70 that Desiring God has listed, click here

Being sensible that I am unable to do any thing without God’s help, I do humbly entreat him, by his grace, to enable me to keep these Resolutions, so far as they are agreeable to his will, for Christ’s sake.

Remember to read over these Resolutions once a week.

1. Resolved, That I will do whatsoever I think to be most to the glory of God, and my own good, profit, and pleasure, in the whole of my duration; without any consideration of the time, whether now, or never so many myriads of ages hence. Resolved, to do whatever I think to be my duty, and most for the good and advantage of mankind in general. Resolved, so to do, whatever difficulties I meet with, how many soever, and how great soever.

2. Resolved, To be continually endeavouring to find out some new contrivance and invention to promote the forementioned things.

3. Resolved, If ever I shall fall and grow dull, so as to neglect to keep any part of these Resolutions, to repent of all I can remember, when I come to myself again.

4. Resolved, Never to do any manner of thing, whether in soul or body, less or more, but what tends to the glory of God, nor be, nor suffer it, if I can possibly avoid it.

5. Resolved, Never to lose one moment of time, but to improve it in the most profitable way I possibly can.

6. Resolved, To live with all my might, while I do live.

7. Resolved, Never to do any thing, which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.

8. Resolved, To act, in all respects, both speaking and doing, as if nobody had been so vile as I, and as if I had committed the same sins, or had the same infirmities or failings, as others; and that I will let the knowledge of their failings promote nothing but shame in myself, and prove only an occasion of my confessing my own sins and misery to God. Vid. July 30.

9. Resolved, To think much, on all occasions, of my dying, and of the common circumstances which attend death.

10. Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.