Its a tradition. Every new years, we all make a list of things we would like to accomplish or change in the upcoming year.

I make this list every year. The problem is, I never stick to it for more then a few days, maybe a week if I'm lucky.

Most of the things on my list are things such as, Clean up after myself, be nicer to sisters, read the Bible every day and night and write in my journal every day.

Well that list never lasts long, and I soon find myself back in my old routine.

The problem is, trying to find a way to stay on track.

Well this past June, I decided I was going to be much stronger Christian. Pray everyday, read my bible everyday, and talk to God more, and actually listen to Him.

When I first started that I worried. "What if it's just like all my other resolutions and I cant do it for more then a few days or weeks?"

Well that thought stuck in my head, so every night, I prayed. I prayed that God would help me stay on track and not go back to my old ways.

And guess what? Five months later, I'm still right on path. God's helped to keep me going where I should, and I'm hearing Him louder and more clear then ever now.

I have never heard God speak to me more then I have in the past five months

I'm learning things about Him that I never knew. Learning to pray in ways I never thought of.

I am ecstatic that I have managed to stay on track so long with this, but I know, if it weren't for God. I would have lost my way a hundred times in the past five months.

Now I may not be a pro at keeping my new years resolutions list, but that something I'm still working on.

I'm jut happy to be at this point in life, where I've never felt closer to God!