Let the Holy Spirit teach you ... HE really knows what HE'S talkin' about
Happy New Year
So, you are a Catholic - so am I but I don’t have to write it down to know what to do. Perhaps writing it down for others gives your ego a pat on the back.
I like “Reading and studying Holy Scripture daily.” That’s more important than anything else!
I hope to save more for retirement this year.
For last several years I’ve had the same New Year Resolution, that is; not to make a New Year Resolution, sounds easy but every year I’m tempted.
Great resolutions!
1. Continue to go to daily Mass.
2. Go to confession at least once a month. I often just forget.
3. Continue to say a daily rosary.
4. Be kind to numbnuts.
5. Try to ignore the Pope Francis bashers and folks who post anti-Catholic remarks (if the RM should miss it). The Church has survived the gainsayers for 2000 years and DOESN'T need me to pipe in my rancor towards them.
6. Do more of the following two exercises:
a. The "push-away" from the table and
b. the motion of the head that goes from side-to-side, accompanied with the words: "No thank you. None for me."
That last one is the TOUGHIE!
I think my new year eve resolution is to bring more people into my life. The kids have gone and in order to maintain a relationship with their father who has decided after 14 years to pay attention to them, they have to minimize their relationship with me. I have decided to accept that, but I am finding a hole in my life.
I think I want to reach out and find people to engage with and enjoy. Raising, homeschooling, and supporting the children meant working 60 to 70 hours a week, and over time I lost my supports and friends. And now my family.
Time to begin anew. There is a lovely couple young couple that I know who have asked me over for dinner. And there is a young man who is a neighbor and his widowed mother. Nice people who might need more connection. There is a young lady neighbor nearby who I have gotten to know and enjoy, and I helped her find a job recently.
I have decided to eschew leftists and their ilk. Ultimately the gulf is too wide. I no longer want to bridge it. Recently I was working and scheduling had all eight of us conservatives working together. We realized it half way through the workday, and reveled in being us...together.
Looking at the possibilities. Over the next year I will join bookclubs, and perhaps host some get-togethers. By autumn my commitments will be few and I would be able to join a church and babysit for people who would enjoy having an extra pair of hands.
Does this make sense or do I sound crazier than usual?
I wish you a wonderful and successful 2015, walkinginthedesert. As for me.. I don’t make New Year’s resolutions; however, I have always made birthday resolutions. (I guess I’m odd that way). My most successful one thus far is that I read three books a year on a subject that I’m not familiar with or have any true interest in. Sounds odd, huh? However, I’ve learned about the French Revolution, English gardening, cave exploration, gem mining, etc... I found all the subjects that didn’t interest me BEFORE... were quite interesting after I learned a bit about them. Hugs and Happy New Year! Mom