Resolutions? No Mas. 2016 is about Life Shaping Desire!

2016 Resolutions?  I resolve to remain unresolved!  How’s that??

No mas!  I’m done!  Uncle!  I am, in modern vernacular, tapping out.

I considered putting ink to paper and developing a resolution or two.  Then I spied March’s dissolution in the fogged over windshield of life’s hyped up, over maxed, half-baked January resolution.  Such foresight has given me the wisdom to say no more to the resolution parade.

This year, rather than a long list of short lived resolutions, I am spending some time Reflecting on Life Shaping Desire.  These reflections revolve around one central question:

“What do I desire – deeply want – or long for in this life?”

Tugging on this question the past few days has lead me to frame it in more specific way,

“What do I desire – deeply want – or long for in 2016?

The question packs (or at least has for me) quite a punch! I am confident that my answer(s) will shift like the tides on the shores of the beach near my home.  Yet, as of this moment, I am meditating on 2016’s Life Shaping Desires!

These are not things I resolve to do in 2016 but desires I long to nurture; to grow.  Desires which, if properly nourished, hold the hope of bringing life to myself and those around me!

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