New Year – Fresh Start

  Lose weight. Quit smoking. Manage my anger. Clean up my potty mouth. Stop yelling at my kids. No more kicking the dog.

New Year’s resolutions tend to be hackneyed repeats of past years for me, so I didn’t make any resolutions this year. From what I’ve heard of friends and relatives resolutions, they have seen the same thing surface in their New Year’s resolutions year after year.  That's not necessarily bad, but it could get really depressing.

Now regarding resolutions, that doesn’t mean I don’t have some goals that I would like to accomplish in 2013. And of course, one of them is to lose weight—LOL.

Without some dreams or goals in our lives, we stagnate and dry rot sets in--a most unattractive prospect.

I wrote a poem many years ago as a New Year’s resolution. I haven’t accomplished the goal in that poem yet, but it’s a worthy one so I’ll keep it (and not call it a resolution).

Illumination

                        Make mine a transparent life

Through which Your loving spirit shines.

                        Refine the impurities

                        So sin’s scar tissue

                        Will not obscure Your light;

                        All selfish desires

(even those appearing “good”)

Burned away,

Allowing only You to be visible.

It appears I have merely renamed my resolutions as goals. That’s OK. Whatever I call them, they will keep me moving—and thinking.  (And I have NEVER kicked my dog.)