Welcoming 2006
While I feel more kindred with the church's new year on 1 September, I still wax a bit nostalgic with the beginning of the new calendar year on 1 January (as evidenced by my best of 2005 post earlier). And so to keep with tradition, I offer my resolutions for this new year of our Lord:
* Stop persecution of the felines in exchange for their reduced shedding and letting me sleep past 4am. Resolve to feed regularly and love often - in sharp contrast to the past ten years, according to them. :)
* Stop the swearage! I need to ditch the potty mouth and begin to speak with integrity and intention. The swearing is the most frustrating, as it is the 'easiest' of my verbal pitfalls.
* Read TBK all the way through.
* Write more thank you notes and other some such correspondence.
* Regularly support Pig's Peace, Tree House, and NHM. Go with D to the shelter once a month. I was pretty good about giving last year, but I want to make it more of a lifestyle and less of an issue of pride for myself. I continue to struggle with the question: By what right can I continue to deny sharing my excess (money, clothes, possessions, etc) with those in need? I don't expect an answer to the question, I don't want an easy fix - I want to be less about giving and more about sharing. What is mine is mine because God gave it, caring stewardship is the minimum I can give in return. May I be blessed to be able to develop a compassionate heart throughout the year.
I could add things to the list, but I'll stop there. It could likely all be pleasantly summed up by 'resolving' to live a more Christ centered life - but it seems rather trite and magickal to 'resolve' such a thing. Any grace God grants me to draw closer to Him, to grow in faith and love, to truly live the life of the Church, well that's His to give and not mine to decide I possess. That God grants an abundance of love and grace is in every way a blessing and in no way my accomplishment. Not sure if the distinction makes sense outside of my mind, but inside the noggin it does (no, that is not meant to inspire confidence in anyone else).
My profile says I talk too much. Argh.
it's a dark old wood and it's damp with dew
* Stop persecution of the felines in exchange for their reduced shedding and letting me sleep past 4am. Resolve to feed regularly and love often - in sharp contrast to the past ten years, according to them. :)
* Stop the swearage! I need to ditch the potty mouth and begin to speak with integrity and intention. The swearing is the most frustrating, as it is the 'easiest' of my verbal pitfalls.
* Read TBK all the way through.
* Write more thank you notes and other some such correspondence.
* Regularly support Pig's Peace, Tree House, and NHM. Go with D to the shelter once a month. I was pretty good about giving last year, but I want to make it more of a lifestyle and less of an issue of pride for myself. I continue to struggle with the question: By what right can I continue to deny sharing my excess (money, clothes, possessions, etc) with those in need? I don't expect an answer to the question, I don't want an easy fix - I want to be less about giving and more about sharing. What is mine is mine because God gave it, caring stewardship is the minimum I can give in return. May I be blessed to be able to develop a compassionate heart throughout the year.
I could add things to the list, but I'll stop there. It could likely all be pleasantly summed up by 'resolving' to live a more Christ centered life - but it seems rather trite and magickal to 'resolve' such a thing. Any grace God grants me to draw closer to Him, to grow in faith and love, to truly live the life of the Church, well that's His to give and not mine to decide I possess. That God grants an abundance of love and grace is in every way a blessing and in no way my accomplishment. Not sure if the distinction makes sense outside of my mind, but inside the noggin it does (no, that is not meant to inspire confidence in anyone else).
My profile says I talk too much. Argh.
it's a dark old wood and it's damp with dew
posted by chickie at 8:49 PM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home