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February 2007 |
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My resolutionsThis year, Doug Edmonds' only new year's resolution was not to make any new year's resolutions. This means that, for the first time in living memory, I have stuck rigidly and determinedly to my resolution. In other years, like pretty much every other living soul, I have pledged to give up various evil habits (most of which I quite enjoy) or take up some worthy project like (groan) exercise. Sometimes I stuck manfully to my resolutions, occasionally for as long as a week. Until now that is, when I can finally feel justifiably smug and self-satisfied! They say that the only thing some people give up for Lent are their New Year's resolutions. Personally I've never made it that far. Lent is a whole new ball game, when dubious resolutions can be recommitted. I often give up various pernicious foodstuffs (just hoping I might lose a little weight) or renounce some sort of treat (just hoping I might save some money). Somehow I just get an inkling that I may have missed the point. The real trouble is that making a sacrifice requires you to make a sacrifice. And there's an added catch to Lent: giving something up is supposed to allow you to take something up. More time means more time to pray; more money means more to give to mission. It all sounds suspiciously religious to me. I might make a new year's resolution about Lenten resolutions next time.
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