Greetings and Happy New Year!  I hope that you have had a great Advent and Christmas season and that 09 has gotten off to a great start!  My family and I have been with our family down in South Carolina this past week.  We are getting ready to drive back to Mechanicsville today.  We have really enjoyed our time with family. 

Every one of us has to make the decision on how to choose our friends.  Who will we hang with?  Are there people from our past we need to let go?  This morning, my devotional was entitled "Stay Focused."  The key verse is "Forgetting the past" (Philippians 3:13, New Living Translation). Here are five types of people the writer says we will encounter in our relationships with others:

In my devotional today, the writer offers four steps to overcome procrastination: