What will this New Year be like; From your own perspective?

What will this New Year be like; From your own perspective?

Creating a positive aspect on what you need, want, or believe is right cannot always be what is correct for humanity or even your closest family members.  It becomes a personal adherence to immediate results of past hopes or desires that did not turn out as we had thought.  

As the many individual persons that made resolutions last year, there are no doubt just as many that never resulted in a positive occurrence.  But in spite of the failed dreams there are many more that lead us to work harder to find a way to accomplish what is needed on this planet.

Making resolutions that are usually personal very few go beyond the individual adherence of our own desires.  The celebration of welcoming Christ’s birth and understanding the meaning of his Incarnation could be the answer to make resolutions that affect more than my personal needs.  It can become a blank adherence to what goes on in a world that does not need my input before satisfying my own wants.  Well, that is exactly what is missing in this world of selfishness when so many millions of people; our brothers and sisters that are made just like us, but reside in poverty stricken and prejudicial areas that sometimes means death for the neediest on this planet.  

Without taking the vestige of old-time humor by trying to become the talk of the community as having the most shared failure and all having a laugh, the seriousness of assuming the position to look on those millions who do not have the freedom to join in our laughter is the one missing entity that falls back on all of us to do something about.

Even as we can joke about New Years Resolutions the people in Jerusalem who are victims of the Holocaust, Christians, especially Roman Catholics, in Nigeria, the citizens in war-torn nations around the planet, and the threat to so many innocent Americans that are being placed in a crucible made up of evil desires to take many down to the sin of apostasy is no joke.

Stop for a moment and consider what occurred at the moment of Creation;  God, composed of the Holy Trinity, created the human race.  God boasted, if we can use this verb, before the angels who would be our guardians, this is the peak of my creatures whom I will always love.  Remember:  God looked at everything he had made, and he found it very good.  (Gn 1: 31).

To which of these human species has God ever said, “Into the depths of hell shall you reside throughout eternity?”  Because mankind failed in keeping his commandments God devised a plan to forgive his greatest creatures; the Incarnation of his Son!

Because all are made in the image of their creator. (Let us make man in our image, after our likeness - Gn 1: 26) man has the obligation to at least attempt in seeking a resolute manner to alleviate the evils that will destroy so many unless we who have our resolutions intact before the humor of our hopes are there to help our brothers and sisters that have little or nothing to hold onto.  Something to be resolute about:  Being there for those who need God’s answer to prayer.

Ralph B. Hathaway