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I have resolved in the past. I am often resolute. I have read resolutions, mine and others. I have never successfully kept a personal resolution, and so therefore, I don’t beat dead horses.
I don’t make ’em. No more.
Except, perhaps. Well, it sounds worthwhile.
Tim over at Straight-Friendly wrote a delightful (they all are) post on 1John and love and well resolutions. And how perhaps we might resolve to do things of lasting value, and not trite silly, “of the world” kinda resolves.
Made a fair amount of sense to me, so I resolve:
To make it a part of my daily prayer to ask God to help me to direct my energies, time, and thoughts to things of value. Things of lasting value. Things that enrich, enlighten, and spread love and peace. Creative things, and helpful things. Loving things and compassionate things.
I see it as loving more, creating more, empathizing more, helping more, criticizing with a purpose to edify rather than just to grouse, and approaching God with all my attention.
Mostly it just means to try every day to be a better me than the day before.
Psst: Tomorrow will be light, since we are freed from our snowy fortress and are heading for the big city for grub and other stuff. I’m trying to find the value in that! Lasting that is. HA!
Existential Ennui 
Glad to read that you will be getting out. I’d be one of those types of people who gets cabin fever and goes nuts I think. 🙂
Yeah, it’s not for those who get uptight about not being able to leave! lol..
snow is gone here, too…but cold as can be. Bitterly cold. oh well. I never make resolutions. Or rather I don’t limit my resolutions to the start of a new year – I take on new projects and new goals as the year goes on – and usually manage to keep ’em going for the length of time needed. Unless it’s exercise – and then I am really bad at doing that in the winter. Pretty good April – November, though. I figure it’s all about hibernating….
Blessings on your new year and 2011 – and enjoy the day out tomorrow.
So glad you’ll be out and about. I was glad you finally got to your mailbox, too!
Me too, it was getting to overflowing. Your letter was like a little Christmas present! Thanks again Jan.
I agree, I take on new things when they come to my attention as something I want to do. Best of the year to you Terri!
We Catholics don’tr pray for ourselves; most of us always pray for others:
I’ll pray that Contrarian gets a better ladder, and doesn’t slip In the House, unless he’s wearibng a helmet.
That Sherry understands I don’t dfollow Any Catholicx or Anybody’s teachings, like she doersn’t. I use Logic and Science, Faxcts, unbiased, as Catholic Scxhgools taught me.
That Sherry continues her thought provoking Blog Ideas (As she and Contrarian also are :).
I won’t publically mention, only continue to pray privatelly, that many more discover the Ideasl Beaty’ Idealism of the bDaily Catholic Church. (The Anglican liturgies some appreciate is old Catholic, still done.
I ask others that I Practise SpellCheck. (And my Typos are Not My Evil; they result from my new Satanic Keyboard.
(some poor excuses work; don’t tell anybody How to excuse faults.)
Better New Year.
And lets hope the Craziness of Teabaggers are Publicized; Like Citing the 230 year old Basic Outline Constitution for each proposal, objection they make against all people programs. All Laws are The “Constitution” in Louisianna, and perhaops still in Alabama; That been found to be bizarre idea.
Besides, this ain’t 1770’s no more, but few Know the Constitution, or Concept of the Brilliant U.S. Constitution Framework.
Tony may we all grow in our faith and understanding. I came back to Catholicism with enthusiasm and with great peace of mind. So far so good. I will always be in serious disagreement on many matters of dogma, but I believe the Church is alive and well when people think, debate and argue. If done in loving respect, we improve the Church over time.
I hope with you that the AMerican people learn something from their experiment in teabaggery. It seems those they have elected are onto the same old practices as before. I expect the disallusionment to profound.