Reflection
It’s still January and you may have already forgotten your new year’s resolution. Don’t despair! Resolve to always be resolving. That sounds terrible, but it’s actually sort of liberating. You don’t need a specific day of the year to start to change your life. You can resolve to do something differently anytime. And you can decide to do these things for an hour, a day, a week. Then see if you want to continue. Vowing to overhaul your life on January 1 and trying to stick with the changes forever is a tall order. A resolution need not be punishing. It doesn’t have to involve curbing appetites or behaviors unless you want it to. And the resolution doesn’t need to be big. It can be small and boring and meaningful only to you. There’s always a clean slate. There’s a blank canvas ahead. How will you fill it?
Melissa Kirsch
Prayer
Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
Psalm 90:12
Action
What does it mean to you to resolve to always be resolving? How can you apply your thoughts about this?
Suggested Reading
There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens.
Ecclesiastes 3:1
With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.
2 Peter 3:8
The time is right to evaluate ourselves, to learn, to grow and to allow ourselves to be transformed, both as individuals and as communities.
Pope Francis
True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
Leo Tolstoy
All things are difficult before they are easy.
Thomas Fuller
Good things take time.
John Wooden
Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by discomforts.
Arnold Bennett
Change, like healing, takes time.
Veronica Roth
Change begins at the end of your comfort zone.
Roy T. Bennett
he greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude
Oprah Winfrey
If you know what you want to achieve in life, then you are more inspired to change for the better
Philip Vang