Tag: New Year

  • Beloved—It’s better than being better

    Beloved—It’s better than being better

    As a new year begins, we are drawn to being better than we are. Which is good. But above that is God’s love.

  • The perfect time to start resolutions

    The perfect time to start resolutions

    The reason we have trouble getting New Year Resolutions to stick is that we treat them like we’re the only ones.

  • Changed

    Changed

    In times of conflict or great disruption, we are always asking ourselves how will we be changed. But the process changes us.

  • Breaking the Chain

    Breaking the Chain

    My attempt to be productive during the pandemic took an interesting turn. I moved away from measuring and toward showing up.

  • Why I stopped hating on 2020

    Why I stopped hating on 2020

    Getting the challenge of 2020 right is essential to understanding what is at stake next year. And the year after.

  • OK, now the new year can start

    OK, now the new year can start

    The real challenge of New Year’s is not just that we write the wrong year on documents. It’s our living the wrong life again. I finally started my Bullet Journal for 2019. It isn’t pretty and I’m not showing off all my beautiful pages. But the fact that we are nearly a week into 2019…

  • Essential Reading 2017

    Essential Reading 2017

    Raw, emotional, conflicted. These are the words I used last year to describe 2016, but they bear repeating for this year. But, as one year fades and the optimism of another’s beginning rises here is some of my experience of the past year. This is the third year I’ve taken stock of the year that was. Check out…

  • My 3 Words for 2016

    My 3 Words for 2016

    Happy 2016! I’m trying something new. I’m kind of jazzed about it. I’ll pick 3 words for the year. Like a mantra. A vision. A course of action. A way of changing my life and maybe help me change the world. Do you want to give it a try? [bctt tweet=”What are your 3 words?” nofollow=”yes”]…