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A Cloud of Resolutions 2019

12/31/2018

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So it is that time of year once again.  The annoying time when people pledge their current baby-steps to self-realization.  A part of me doesn't really believe in resolutions because a part of me doesn't believe that the stroke of midnight tonight is anything other than the changing of another arbitrarily measured day.

However, a part of me really does believe in resolutions, or at least the practice of it if not the timing.  After all, I do believe in setting yourself a code to live by.  As a clergy person there are whole books about expectations concerning my behavior.  More generally, my job has a lot to do with finding ways to apply scripture to daily life. It is also not just my job, is it?  It is life for human beings trying to walk a path of faith and/or of hope.

​Also, ever since I was a little kid, I  experimented with personal oaths and codes. Back then a lot of them sounded like they came from the Paladin section of the D&D Players Handbook.  Now? Well...they still kinda probably do...

Anyway, I am updating (or applying) that code--I guess--as I always try to do at New Years and Lent.  Do I fall short?  Yep.  Every. Single. Time.  But I do believe that being a good person in God's Creation necessitates mindfulness.  So--contextually couched in four decades of the study of scripture and the PHB--here is my resolution work-in-progress for the year. There will be a Lenten tune-up as implied...

A Cloud O' Resolutions 2019


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If I am blessed to see another year after this, I want to be able look back at the time between then and now and say:

I have learned more Spanish
I was almost always at 10,000 steps
I have eaten less and enjoyed it more
I drank less alcohol but more water and Moxie
I gamed all the games I wanted to game
I preached the sermons that needed preaching
I did my best
I played the music and enjoyed it even when I messed it up

I have edited so much video...
...and am now a YouTube celebrity to 12 people

​I have practiced love
I have practiced forgiveness at least when I have failed to practice love


So, not very deep, huh?  What did you expect? That is the point.  It is a practice and practices are like that.  Depth comes with repetition.  Anyway, that is my nerdy work-list for the year.  Good luck on yours!




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