Every year around this time I refuse to make resolutions. At least, I think that I do. However, I always spend some time between Christmas and New Year’s Day thinking about the year that is almost gone…would I have done anything differently if I could, and, if so, what? Will I do anything differently this coming year?
It has become a bit passe, or so I’ve heard, to blog about something you plan to do–a goal, a quest, an adventure–everyday for the next year. Even so, I can’t help but think about it, especially after watching Julie and Julia, a recently released movie about a newlywed who decides to cook her way through Julia Child’s cookbook in 365 days.
I try to think about important elements I should incorporate in such a quest, were I to try it. Bear with me as I open the dam on my stream of consciousness…
- since I am body, mind, and spirit, any such quest should engage me on all three levels
- I am encouraged to love God with all that I am and to love my neighbor as myself
- it is better to give than to receive
- the thought of trying to out give God appeals to me
- I want to end better than I began
- to feel strong physically is important to me
- I am in search of the real me, the me that Pascal describes as “the shimmering self”
- I want to be able to say as Caleb did to Joshua, “As my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, both to go out, and to come in. Now therefore give me this mountain…”
- it is important that I work less and spend more time with my family while there is still time to do so
These are a few of the things that are rolling around in this skull of mine this week as I considered such an adventure.
What about you? Does the thought of a year-long quest chronicled in a blog appeal to you? What would you attempt and write about?
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