A UMC.org feature by Laurens Glass:
New Year’s Resolutions have always been a very pass/fail sort of test
for me. I set myself up to forgo chocolate and lo and behold, two weeks
into the New Year, I find myself munching nonchalantly on fudge. In the
immortal words of comedian Steve Martin, “I forgot.” But worse, one
slip up and I feel like I have failed. I can’t go back to “the day
before the fudge” so what’s the point? My record is no longer perfect.
But that is the whole point from a spiritual perspective. We’re not perfect. But we are improving.
Resolving
to be more spiritual is not a hard date to keep or a hard bar to leap
over. It’s a daily resetting of your mind and soul. It’s trying again
when you “fail” and knowing that you can never fail if you’re trying. It
is…grace. Here a few ideas for growing spiritually and for spurring you
to think of your own.
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