StriperAddict
Senior Member
... but except for a few that do not apply, I thought John Lynch hit a homer with these hearty considerations. Enjoy, and Happy New Year !
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I am one who historically has not dabbled in the "resolution" discipline. However I have some significant hopes for the new year. …(A person can dream, can’t they?)
*To drink something with the nutritional value of kombucha without it actually being kombucha.
*To allow no more artificial plants into our home.
*When given the choice in a restaurant, that my grandchildren would often opt to sit next to "Pops."
*To finally settle on which direction to part my hair.
*To be as good a man as I was when my dog was alive.
*To trust the electronic airline ticket on my phone and give up the paper one.
*To trust "Christ in me" to be kinder in my heart to the arrogantly, self-entitled.
*To explain to others more tangibly and accessibly how "Christ in me" can be lived out.
*To not be one of the self-entitled.
*To go forward into this new season in vulnerable trust of God without holding onto blame from the past.
*To find a TV series as delightful as "Newsroom," written by someone as skillful and artful as Aaron Sorkin.
*To be named vice-mayor of Marco Polo.
*To discover an enjoyable $10 bottle of wine.
*To even more fervently wave to people as I come off my flight, as though I'm a celebrity or senator.
*To trust "Christ in me" to be kind.
*To trust "Christ in me" to be kind, to me.
*To still notice the hurting on my page and let them know they are seen.
*To keep us from getting a cat.
*To not be that loud, cliched, older guy who blames everything on everyone younger than him.
*To trust a few others to protect me away from my self-protection.
*To continue to not do any religious thing because I "should."
*To guard the heart of my weaker brother while enjoying my freedoms in near excess around the Pharisaical brother.
*To write my next book.
*To be in the moment, in whatever setting I am.
*To trust Christ's security in my insecurity.
*To figure out how to add a day to some speaking events to visit friends and historic downtown districts.
*To have dinner with Bob Dylan, and my friend Jim Nagle, somewhere in downtown Detroit.
*To be more playful.
*To write a one-man show.
*To travel with Stacey, as often as possible.
*To keep pigeons from entering our home.
*To convince those of influence in my life that I love them not for what they can do for me or because they are famous.
*To become a person of increasing influence, who others must convince that they love not because I'm famous.
*To continue to be more tan than is medically prudent.
*To remember my long-time neighbor’s name, so I don’t have to smile, wave and yell some indefinably vague mumbling across the street to him after he has called out my name so clearly and confidently. (I believe I have called him Mitch, Guy, Mark, Stan and Walt. But all garbled enough so I couldn’t be held to any of them.)
*To sleep.
*To convince others that Jesus has made them enough.
*To convince others that they are fully righteous, already.
*To convince others they are endlessly loved and liked by our God.
*To convince others that Jesus is not difficult to know.
*To convince others there is nothing we have done that the cross didn't anticipate.
*To celebrate others as often and as extravagantly as my wife would like.
*To convince the younger that vulnerability, authenticity, and community are indispensable.
*To convince those who do not believe as I do, that I am safe.
*To eat more pie and actually lose weight.
*To mature into the person my Facebook friends believe I am.
~Happy and sacred New Year my dear friends.
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I am one who historically has not dabbled in the "resolution" discipline. However I have some significant hopes for the new year. …(A person can dream, can’t they?)
*To drink something with the nutritional value of kombucha without it actually being kombucha.
*To allow no more artificial plants into our home.
*When given the choice in a restaurant, that my grandchildren would often opt to sit next to "Pops."
*To finally settle on which direction to part my hair.
*To be as good a man as I was when my dog was alive.
*To trust the electronic airline ticket on my phone and give up the paper one.
*To trust "Christ in me" to be kinder in my heart to the arrogantly, self-entitled.
*To explain to others more tangibly and accessibly how "Christ in me" can be lived out.
*To not be one of the self-entitled.
*To go forward into this new season in vulnerable trust of God without holding onto blame from the past.
*To find a TV series as delightful as "Newsroom," written by someone as skillful and artful as Aaron Sorkin.
*To be named vice-mayor of Marco Polo.
*To discover an enjoyable $10 bottle of wine.
*To even more fervently wave to people as I come off my flight, as though I'm a celebrity or senator.
*To trust "Christ in me" to be kind.
*To trust "Christ in me" to be kind, to me.
*To still notice the hurting on my page and let them know they are seen.
*To keep us from getting a cat.
*To not be that loud, cliched, older guy who blames everything on everyone younger than him.
*To trust a few others to protect me away from my self-protection.
*To continue to not do any religious thing because I "should."
*To guard the heart of my weaker brother while enjoying my freedoms in near excess around the Pharisaical brother.
*To write my next book.
*To be in the moment, in whatever setting I am.
*To trust Christ's security in my insecurity.
*To figure out how to add a day to some speaking events to visit friends and historic downtown districts.
*To have dinner with Bob Dylan, and my friend Jim Nagle, somewhere in downtown Detroit.
*To be more playful.
*To write a one-man show.
*To travel with Stacey, as often as possible.
*To keep pigeons from entering our home.
*To convince those of influence in my life that I love them not for what they can do for me or because they are famous.
*To become a person of increasing influence, who others must convince that they love not because I'm famous.
*To continue to be more tan than is medically prudent.
*To remember my long-time neighbor’s name, so I don’t have to smile, wave and yell some indefinably vague mumbling across the street to him after he has called out my name so clearly and confidently. (I believe I have called him Mitch, Guy, Mark, Stan and Walt. But all garbled enough so I couldn’t be held to any of them.)
*To sleep.
*To convince others that Jesus has made them enough.
*To convince others that they are fully righteous, already.
*To convince others they are endlessly loved and liked by our God.
*To convince others that Jesus is not difficult to know.
*To convince others there is nothing we have done that the cross didn't anticipate.
*To celebrate others as often and as extravagantly as my wife would like.
*To convince the younger that vulnerability, authenticity, and community are indispensable.
*To convince those who do not believe as I do, that I am safe.
*To eat more pie and actually lose weight.
*To mature into the person my Facebook friends believe I am.
~Happy and sacred New Year my dear friends.