~ A New Year’s Blessing for Realists ~

We’ve stepped into a new year. Just about every place I look I run into some flavor of inspirational message – most of them pointing out that if we try hard enough the coming year will be “The Year”.  

What a breath of fresh-truth to come across this blessing  from Nadia Bolz_Weber.  Ah, Nadia. She always reminds me to root my feet in the earth.
 

A New Year’s Blessing for realists

As you enter this new year, as you pack away the Christmas decorations and get out your stretchy pants,

as you face the onslaught of false promises offered you through new disciplines and elimination diets,

as you grasp for control of yourself and your life and this chaotic world –

May you remember that there is no resolution that, if kept, will make you more worthy of love.

So this year (as every year),
May you just skip the part where you resolve to be better do better and look better this time.

Instead, may you give yourself the gift of really, really low expectations. Not out of resignation, but out of generosity.

May you expect so little of yourself that you can be super proud of the smallest of accomplishments.

May you expect so little of the people in your life that you actually notice and cherish every small, lovely thing about them.

May you expect so little of the service industry that you notice more of what you do get and less of what you don’t and then just tip really well anyhow.

May you expect to get so little out of 2024 that you can celebrate every single thing it offers you, however small.

Because you deserve joy and not disappointment.

So, I wish you a Happy as possible New Year.
Love,
Nadia.

And may you remember that there is no resolution that, if kept, will make you more worthy of love.

With love,
Sharon