Do I really need a new me?

I hate new year's resolutions. Scratch that. I sincerely dislike new year's resolutions. 
This pressure that we reinvent ourselves once the clock strikes midnight in hopes that by the end of the year we would have become a new person is so daunting. I'm still the same me I was 12 hours ago! 
So often I think we find ourselves trying to create the most perfect version of ourselves in our new year's resolutions. The most perfect version of ourselves gets up at 5 a.m. and works out and eats the most perfect breakfast and has a clean kitchen and space and gets to work/school on time and eats the perfect lunch and makes it home to cook the most perfect dinner with enough energy somehow to develop new hobbies and interests while maintaining a perfect sleep schedule. 
Perfection is what we seek. Perfection is what we aim to resolve in ourselves. 
Our resolutions, however, fail to acknowledge what we face on a day-to-day basis. They often forget to take our mental health into account. They fail to mention the family stresses that we endure in the background. They fail to understand that we had a really hard year, or hard years for some. And at the end of the year, we look back and laugh at what we thought would save us on January first. Somehow, all of these resolutions would turn us into new people. It's almost comical. 
What's crazy is that this resolution to many (including myself) seems so obvious. Like, of course I'm going to thank God. Duh. Of course he loves me, duh. But when life feels unmanageable, when the 5 a.m. workout isn't possible, when the perfect breakfast, lunch, and dinner becomes unattainable: what is left for us to cling to? Is our new year obsolete? Is our future not worth celebrating? Does life have to pause until the next year when things can be resolved again? 
The truth about life is that it's not just the new year that we can celebrate newness. It's every day, every hour, every minute, every second. We do not know how much time we have on this earth. So instead of making it a point to resolve each year to perfection, let us celebrate every minute we have on this Earth by giving it to God. For every tear we will shed this year, we praise God. For every gain we will receive, we praise God. For every loss we will endure, we praise God. For He is who we have been promised. Not the perfect diet, or the perfect workout regimen, or the perfect schedule, or the perfect hobbies: the gift of salvation through Jesus Christ our Lord. In fact, it's through Jesus that we are given a new resolution:

"Therefore if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: the old has gone, the new is here! All this from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people's sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. ​
2 Corinthians 5:16-19

This year, I'm actively rejecting the idea of a new year's resolution and accepting the idea of a new day's resolution. I'm taking on the action of making every day a chance to let God renew my soul and my mind. To take every moment as time to spend time in prayer. Every stoplight, every still breath, every quiet night: I vow to honor what God has given to me. I vow to make space for the brokenness in my life and to fill those cracks with the promises God has endowed unto us. ​That is my one and only resolution. (and to be posting here more often. welcome to the new blog!)

Jesus, thank you for newness in you. Forgive us for when we forget that we are made new in your sacrifice for us. Teach us to celebrate that in all that we do. Teach us your song, oh God, so that we may find joy in the moments you have endowed to us thus far. Make us one with each other and one with you in the ministry of reconciliation that you have blessed us with. 
​Amen.