New Year Resolutions

At this time of year, many of us like to make New Year’s resolutions. Mine usually go like this: My resolution is not to make any resolutions this year (because I usually don’t keep them, so what is the point). Until I found this one: “Let our New Year’s resolution be this: We will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity.” – Goran Persson

Most of us don’t have big families these days, or if we do, they might be scattered all over the country, so we celebrate our holidays with those around us, at our work, or in our communities. For me, every Sunday feels like a great celebration when we connect at Interfaith. You are my best friends, and I hope that I am yours. You are my family, and I hope that I am yours.

Of course there is a point in making resolutions, even if we don’t keep them all. We get a chance to think in terms of things we can do for ourselves to do better. This is important creative thinking. It is so much harder to move forward in our lives if we do not set out with some aspirational thinking. New Year’s Resolutions are just one way to accomplish this. I really like this quotation I found in an old calendar: “Our only limit to what we can achieve lies in what we can imagine.” We have to start in our own imagination. When my son Alex was a teenager, I would often say in reply to some negative or limiting remark, “You never know.”

Let us continue to imagine the best for ourselves, each other, and our Interfaith spiritual community. Together we can create much more than each of us can do alone.

Blessings for this New Year to ALL of us!  

Annie