Object: A curtain or a window blind.

Good morning, boys and girls. Today is New Year's Eve and that is a special time of celebration. What are you going to do tonight to celebrate the New Year? (Let them answer.) What are you going to do different next year that you did not do this year? (Let them answer.) Are you going to make any promises to yourself that we call New Year's Resolutions? (Let them answer.) I am going to promise that I will not gain any weight this year and that I hope to lose twenty pounds. All of us like to make some kind of a promise to ourselves with the beginning of a new year.

God also makes promises. God promised an old man by the name of Simeon that he would not die until he saw the Christ Child. That was a promise that Simeon remembered a…