As always expected, everyone is thinking and/or making their own new years resolutions. New things to do in the coming year. A new promise to keep to make one's new year a better year than before.
For the past years I also have been making my own new year's resolutions. Most of them I diligently kept. Yes! Well, for a few months only. It was last year that I stopped making one. This will be my second year. I resolved not to make any new years resolutions because I felt guilty of it already. Making one has become tough for me. It wasn't that easy. For me it is a daily struggle that I needed to be reminded. And so in my heart I no longer have "new years resolution" but a "daily resolution."
I attended mass one afternoon. It was yet two days before new year but I know it would be my last daily mass for the year 2011. I stayed in the presence of God at the Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration Chapel (PEA) and prayed the Rosary. I took it as my last for the year 2011 because I wasn't sure of the following day if I could make all or any of these again before the year ends.
These were one of my new years resolution two years ago, (have more on my list) to attend mass as often as I can. To be with God as often as I can and to pray the Rosary as often as I can. Actually, it should have been daily, but since I knew I couldn't really make it, I made it "as often as I can." Less pressure and less stress and less guilt and also made it easier to do. Every new year I would try to check on how I fared the previous year and improve them. Almost everyday I read them, too, to remind me.
God knows us more than we know. We can't hide anything from him. He understands us. Oftentimes we are just the one making things complicated and difficult for us. Like making a simple new years resolution. Sometimes we even think not to make one anymore because we are ashamed of not doing it all through out the year.
God has given us this new year, to give us hope. To remind us that whatever mistakes that we had in the past, as long as we have been sorry for it, He has forgiven us already. He doesn't count them.
Every new year is a chance for us to ponder on our life in the past year. A chance to remember what part of our life we failed and succeeded. A time to know how far have we grown in our spiritual journey. A time to examine ourselves if we lived a kind of life that God has intended it to be.
Life is what we make it.
May we always make every new year an opportunity to make our life better and better, if not the best.
Happy New Year Everyone!
Good Luck, Good Health, God Bless You!
