Here we are with a blank year spread out before us. How will it be filled? How will we fill it? Will we practice what we know? Or will we practice what we think? Or will we practice what we fear?
Obviously, it is easier to look back at the filled pages of the past year...it's interesting, or daunting, that first thing up is a regret. Ponder that. How have we dealt with that regret? Is there any personal liability attached to it? As in, have we washed, rinsed, fluffed and folded our part? If so, that regret is the equivalent of an unmatched sock...useless. Pitch it.
Back to our blank year before us. What do we anticipate the year to look like? What do we want the year to be for us?
I started out this morning thinking that I'd like to live a more fourth dimensional life. I know what that means to me but for clarity I Googled it. I shoulda known better. When the simplified version started out with calculus, I bailed. On second thought, that was no doubt God's will...it returned me to reality, i.e., practically speaking, how do I plan to live this year trying not to be as nasty as I want to be.
I expect I'll live the same as I lived last year and the year before, etc. To live a life trying not to be as nasty as I want to be is to live trying to think of others first...of her sensibilities, of his feelings...in short, trying to live aware of and resistant to my ego Lucy's demands.
Which is the same plan I received from God originally...meaning God's got my work cut out for me. And I am grateful.
Thank you.
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