For me, each
New Year encourages me to contemplate. January offers a chance for a fresh, new
start, an opportunity for change. Is it just me, or do you feel it too?
Although
I’m not one to make resolutions, I do think about the year that has passed—what
worked well and what did not. And I set some goals for the coming months. Over
the first few days of 2018, I’m finding myself pondering less about what to do
and more about how to be.
I want to
be kinder and gentler towards myself and others. I want to smile more and argue
less. I want peace, inside and out. I want peace not just for myself, but for
everyone in the country, on the planet. I have no idea how to achieve it; I
only know I want it.
Here are
a few more desires that I have no idea how to make happen:
I want
every hungry child to be fed.
I want
every lonely person to feel loved.
I want
war, in all its forms, to end.
I want
every mother and father to know their children are safe.
I want a
cure for every disease.
Now, let’s
all hold hands and sing Kumbaya. Yes, I’m grinning at the silly notion that
these things could ever come to pass. But that doesn’t keep me from dreaming
that someday the world really could be a better place, a place where people
respect and take care of each other, where people are placed above greed and
profits, where every single person truly matters.
Please
know that you matter to me. And I wish you peace in the New Year.
