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Opinions & Ideas Page 4-A - HARRIS COUNTY JOURNAL - Thursday, Dec. 31, 2015 THE Harris County Journal USPS 235960 What Happens When We Do Nothing Wumed and Operated By Erih publications, nc ROBERT E. TRIBBLE, President John Kuykendall PUBLISHER/EDITOR Rob Richardson Layout Editor Andy Kober Associate Editor Official Legal Organ for Harris County What Is Your New Year’s Resolution? Are you one of those peo ple who make a New Year’s resolution every year? If so my next question would be, Do you keep your New Year’s resolutions? I can probably answer that last question if you are one of those people who make such daring challenges. You probably start off with good intentions and you probably keep the resolution for maybe a month before it becomes easier to just get on with life than to worry about keeping it. There was a time when I would make a New Year’s res olution. Every year I would come up with something that I really needed to change. One year it might be eating habits, the next year it might be to do this or do that, but I would make them. Making resolutions is one thing, keeping them is an entirely different matter. So, a few years ago I resolved to never again make a New Year’s resolution. Then I asked myself, “How will I change bad habits or make my life better if I do not make resolutions and keep them?” I developed a plan that has make be fairly successful at keeping my resolutions and I’m going to pass that plan on to my readers just in case you are one of those folks who start off the New Year with a resolution only to see it fail. Here is the plan: • Choose a specific and realistic goal: Every year, millions of adults resolve to ’'lose weight" or "get in shape" during the next year. Instead of selecting such an ambigu ous goal, focus on something more concrete that you can realistically set your sights on. For example, you might commit to losing 10 pounds. Choosing a concrete, achiev able goal also gives you the opportunity to plan exactly how you are going to accom plish your goal over the course of the year. • Pick just one resolution: While you might have a long list of potential resolutions you should pick just one and focus your energies on it rather than spreading your self too thin among a number of different objectives. • Don’t wait until New Year’s Eve: Planning is an essential part of achieving any goal. You can start by writing down your goal, mak ing a list of things you might do to achieve that goal, and noting any obstacles that might stand in your way. • Start with small steps: Taking on too much is a com mon reason why so many New Year's Resolutions fail. Dramatically slashing calo ries, over-doing it at the gym, Bryan Geter Advertising Representative Kim Mitchell Business Manager Phone (706) 846-3188 news@star-mercury.com P. O. Box 426 Manchester, GA 31816 or radically altering your nor mal behavior are sure-fire ways to derail your plans. Instead, focus on taking tiny steps that will ultimately help you reach your larger goal. • Avoid repeating past failures: Another strategy for keeping your New Year's Resolution is to not make the exact same resolution year after year. If you do choose to reach for the same goals you've tried for in the past, spend some time evaluating your previous results. Which strategies were the most effective? Which were the least effective? What has pre vented you from keeping your resolution in past years? By changing your approach, you will be more likely to see real results this year. Remember that change is progress: Those unhealthy habits that you are trying to change probably took years to develop, so how can you expect to change them in just a matter or days, weeks, or months? Don’t let small stumbles bring you down: Encountering a setback is one of the most common reasons why people give up on their resolutions. If you suddenly relapse into a bad habit, don't view it as a failure, learn from the set back and don’t make the same mistake again. Get support from your friends and family: The buddy system really does work so don’t be afraid to ask someone to help you obtain your goal. Renew your motivation: As the confidence and moti vation begins to dissipate remind yourself of why you are doing what you are, “to improve your life.” Keep working on your goals: By February, many people have lost that initial spark of motivation. Keep that inspiration alive by con tinuing to work on your goals, even after facing setbacks. If your current approach is not working, reevaluate your strategies and develop a new plan. So, there you have it. A game plan that will help you actually keep your New Year’s resolutions. I hope this helps you obtain your goals. I wish you and yours a very safe and happy New Year’s and a very blessed and prosperous 2016. Can you imagine how you would feel if you were wit nessing some great tragedy, and you had the opportunity to save somebody’s life that was caught up in the tragedy, but you didn’t do it. You would feel awful and would proba bly carry the guilt to your grave for not doing what you should have done. There is a tragedy occur ring today in America and it is the attitude many of our leaders have towards sin. Many have developed a poli cy of looking the other way when wrongs are done, or not speaking out when we should say something. Many feel we should not rock the boat when the boat needs rocking. We have the attitude of “see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.” Sin is costing the lives of many people every day either through death or by living a life that has no quality to it and we say, “Well, don’t say anything about it because it will work itself out.” Sin never works itself out it destroys and it is time that somebody stood up and did Hoping Things Will All Get Better in 2016 Will things get better in 2016? Or will they remain large ly the same? Two simple questions with very elusive answers. The year is 1914, and on Christmas Day soldiers of dif ferent armies face each other across trenches in the region of Ypres in Belgium. With the approach of Christmas Day, German troops decorated areas around their trenches and began singing Christmas car ols. On the other side of the battlefield, British soldiers did not understand the lan guage but they recognized the songs, and began to sing as well. Field guns on both sides fell silent. Along the trenches, an estimated 100,000 soldiers gathered in an impromptu celebration of Christmas. History records they helped each other gather their wounded. They worked together to bury their dead and held joint ceremonies. They exchanged small gifts, swapped prisoners, played soccer, enjoyed card games, swapped cigarettes and food, and for a little while could forget about the horrors of war. History also reports that Making a Difference ‘Rural’ Interesting to Read Bulloch Autors Book on Georgia Extension Service History By John Kuykendall HIS SECOND BOOK - Paul Bulloch, former Talbot County Extension Agent, has written his second book entitled “100 Years Georgia Cooperative Extensiion Service.” something about the tragedy in our country before it is too late. We have a president who has no problem with same sex marriages. An Easter Egg hunt was held on the grounds of the White House for chil dren who live with same sex couples. And as you know the Supreme Court voted to make same sex marriages legal in every state. Our country is moving away from being a Christian nation and unless we step up and do something it will continue to get worse. The Bible tells us a story about a man named Lot who had developed a do nothing attitude towards sin. When angels went to Sodom and Gomorra to destroy it they found Lot sitting at the gate. The judgment of God was about to fall and God’s man was doing nothing. Sodom and Gomorra was a city filled with homosexuals and all sort of other sins. But Lot’s do nothing attitude cost him and it will cost us and this great nation if we choose to devel op a do nothing attitude towards sin. in some areas the unofficial Christmas truce lasted only a day, while in other areas it lasted until New Years Day. After that it was back to the gruesome business of war. HISTORY will not be kind to 2015. In too many places, racial strife is as bad, or worse, than it has ever been. Special interest groups use tragedies to strike down all vestiges of the old Confederacy but gang sym bols remain prolific. And let us not forget the big box dis count store that was all too happy to bake a cake with an Isis flag. The inner cities of major metropolitan areas in the United States have become a powder keg, waiting for any incident - real or imagined - - to light the fuse of looting, burning and wanton attacks. Police officers across the country have become targets. At last count in 2015, 123 had died or been killed in the line of duty. College students dese crate the American Flag, while teachers have school students reciting “There is no god but Allah” in an American public school. Attacks on civilians by - - Bob Tribble MB • From Where mtISit The late great Reggie White was sprofessional foot- ball player to be admired. He was admired more for his out spoken stand for God and what is right than for his ath letic ability. A few years ago the big lineman drew fire from several areas following a speech before the Wisconsin Legislature when he called homosexuality a sin. My guess is that all the criti cism that came his way bounced off his back and he had no regrets for his remarks because he was a Godly man and wasn’t afraid to take a stand for what is right. “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men (and women) to do nothing.” We live in a society today Andy Kober radical Muslims have almost become an all-too-common occurrence. Attacks on the rights guaranteed to Americans by the Bill of Rights continues, if not by legislative action, by presidential decrees. That Americans no longer trust their elected officials in Washington is without doubt, but the level of that distrust continues to grow. An embattled president, who was supposed to bring people together, has actually led to deep divisions and added to growing mistrust. In 2015 a man undergoes transgender surgery and is called brave by the Hollywood elite and major media, while wounded sol diers - male and female - too often receive substandard care. I could cite more. But do I really need to? Now we move on to 2016. That this country has suf By JOHN KUYKENDALL Talbot County resident Paul Bulloch has written his second book entitled “100 Years Georgia Cooperative Extension Service.” This is Bulloch’s second book. He authored a book about the his tory of Georgia Peaches a few years ago. Bulloch was inspired to write the history of the Georgia Extension Service in order to tell the story about the County Agents in Georgia. Bulloch grew up on a farm near Manchester where he and his family raised peaches, cot ton corn, timber and pimento peppers and ran a dairy. “As a young person my grandfather taught me much about agriculture and his involvement in 4-H and FFA that increased his knowledge of farming practices,” Bulloch said. Bulloch graduated from the University of Georgia with a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture and a Master’s in Cooperative Extension Education. His career expericne includ ed the position of County Extension Agent for 30 years in Bibb, Carroll and Talbot coun ties. While in Talbot County, he was President of the Talbot Farm Bureau and the Georgia Extension Retiree’s Association. Currently he is working for the Georgia Agricultural Statistical Service and owns and managed Old South Farm Museum and AgLearning Center in Woodland, where he also resides. Bulloch said he owns a much to many for helping him author this book. “I gratefully acknowledge the assistance of many people in writing this book,” Bulloch said. “There were countless inter views and many hours of pho tography that added perspective. “I want to thank my wife, Pamela Oliver Bulloch, who was patient as I wrote and rewrote this story; my sister, Lou Ellen Bulloch Grant, who typed the first copy for editing; Caroline Killens, Head of the University Archives Library from the University of Georgia for sup plying pictures; and many coun ty agents and retired extension agents who furnished other resouce materials.” that wants their churches and their preachers to accentu ate the love of God, the power of positive thinking, but to say nothing and do nothing about sin. But listen up folks when the messengers of God grow silent as Lot did and choose to do nothing towards sin the judgment of God could be near at hand. Perhaps the greatest thing that it cost Lot for doing nothing was the city of Sodom and Gomorra itself. He had to carry the guilt of all those lives that were lost to his grave when he knew that he possessed the power to save them, but he chose to do noth ing. We Christians cannot afford to continue to sit on the sidelines and do nothing watching our great nation that was founded on Christian principles move closer to a Sodom and Gomorra as each year passes by. As we begin the New Year please make a commitment to pray every day that this great nation that we live in will once again become a Christian nation. fered deep fractures in the very ideals of freedom, sac rifice, and personal respon sibility is without doubt. Instead of working, too many people seek to live off welfare programs while sell ing drugs on the side or steal ing the possessions of others. Those in Congress are more interested in fattening their own paychecks instead of providing for senior citi zens and retired people. Until there is a funda mental change in how the gov ernment conducts its busi ness, then things will contin ue as they have been, and con tinue to get worse. In 2016, Americans will have a choice. In addition to a variety of elected offices to be decided, this is a presidential election year. We will have the choice of whether to continue plod ding along the same path, or chart a new course with new leadership. The future of this coun try will be in the hands of the voters. Here is hoping that 2016 brings significant change that puts this country back on a path of greatness. That’s my opinion. The Harris County Journal is published weekly by Trib Publications, Inc. at 112 North College Street, (P. O. Box 426, Manchester, Georgia 31816) Hamilton, Ga., 31811. The Harris County Journal is published proudly for the citizens of Harris County and its goal is to pro duce quality, profitable, community oriented newspapers that you, our readers, are proud of. We will reach that goal through hard work, team- work, loyalty, and a strong dedication toward printing the truth. USPS 235-960. Periodical postage paid at Hamilton Post Office, Hamilton, Ga. 31811. For subscriptions call (706) 846-3188 or write to Circulation Manager, Trib Publications, P. 0. Box 426, Manchester, Georgia 31816. Subscription rates by mail: $25 in Meriwether, Harris or Troup Counties; $32.50 a year in state; $40 a year out of state. Prices include all sales taxes. Postmaster: Send address changes to P. O. Box 426, Manchester, Georgia 31816.
