New Year, New Start

Okay, I'm not even looking at the date of the previous entry. I'm just making a clean start right here, right now. It's a new year. I'm allowed to make a new start.

I felt strange entering this year with no list of resolutions. I didn't make any. It's not because I have a really bad record of actually keeping or fulfilling the resolutions I've made in past years. Ten or a dozen things neatly written and the list posted on the fridge where all who enter my home could see. About a month or so into the year, the list would be superceded by some artwork done by little people who love me. By summer, the list was just a vague memory. That wasn't it. It was just because nobody around me mentioned it. No one asked me what my resolutions were. Nobody brought it up. Nobody told me theirs. No one even said they wanted to lose ten pounds (a perennial favourite). Has making resolutions fallen out of favour?

If I were to make resolutions, I'd want some that would make my life less stressful. I know: every time I come into the house, hang up my keys on the hook that's in the closet. Imagine a life where I would never again have to say, "Has anyone seen my keys?" Ah, that's a certain bliss. I've already made a start on this one. At this moment, I know my keys are hanging right where they should be!

For a second one, I would commit to the One-Year Bible reading plan. I tried the 90-day plan, but I think, for me, slower would be better.

Three . . . would I be able to handle a third one? Maybe . . . choose others first. By this I mean think of others first. It's a variation on the Golden Rule. Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. Speak kindly. Help others.

Well, they won't bring world peace or solve world environmental problems, but in the little circle that is my immediate world, perhaps they will bring a measure of peace to me and those around me.

So welcome to this new year and new way!