Do you make New Year’s Resolutions?
I used to, but then I began to realize that I made the same two or three resolutions every year, and after years of that, my expectations of achieving those things was pretty low. After all, surely, I would have mastered them by now if I were going to!
I was talking about this with a friend and told him I thought I was resolution-challenged. His response? “You’re pretty bullheaded, so if you can’t keep the resolutions, maybe you are resolving the wrong things. Or maybe you’re relying on the wrong power.” I’d like to say he was wrong about the temperament part, but he was exactly right on the rest of it.
There’s an author named Margaret Feinberg who wrote a book called The Sacred Echo. In it, she talks about the ways God speaks to us.