Kathleen Parker lists her resolutions for the coming year, but instead of listing ones specifically for 2011, she lists her timeless ones. She calls it a sort of “Eat, Pray, Love 2.0”.
For Love she writes:
“At the risk of sounding preachy, God forbid, it’s about giving. Yet another simple concept, we see it relatively seldom. We have the ‘giving season,’ a largely tinseled affair of extravagance and delayed debt. We give ‘gifts,’ but they are mere things, easily discarded, rarely cherished and hardly sacrificial. A few bucks handed to a store clerk don’t much get to the heart of matters.
Here is giving: Listening. Sparing time. Not interrupting. Holding that thought. Leaving the last drop. Staying home. Turning it off, whatever it is. Making eye contact. Picking it up. Taking the room’s temperature. Paying attention. Waiting.
More Golden Rule than heavenly virtues, but you get the drift. Do unto others, and, who knows, maybe they’ll make a movie starring Julia Roberts.”
More here.
So what about you? Have any resolutions for the coming year, or for the rest of your life, that you’d like to share? Planning on reading the Bible the whole way through this year? Reading the Daily Office faithfully? Volunteering more? Tithing? More time with family and friends, less with the computer (ah – that might be one of mine…)?