While we have just started a new year, it’s taken me just a little longer to jot down the resolutions for the coming 12 months.
I’m hoping 2025 will be a good year for us, maybe a lot better than 2024 ended and that I and our family will go through it without some of the challenges we faced, especially over the past several weeks.
Parts of this past year were much harder than in some previous years, but we did try and deal with the difficulties through prayer and working together through them.
To be honest, in the last several weeks I haven’t thought a lot about 2025. My mind has been so focused primarily on one thing that I hadn’t looked that far forward to this new year that is just a couple days old now.
My first and foremost resolution for 2025, and if needed years after that, will be to pray daily and often to God that our daughter Meghan might beat the incurable cancer she was diagnosed with only two weeks ago. My wife, I and countless others are praying for her.
I know it will take a miracle but I have to put trust and faith in the Lord that there is a chance for that miracle to occur. That is most important to pray for it daily and that won’t be hard to do. That’s the easy part of this is praying for it.
This one resolution overshadows the others. The second resolution is for me to remain strong for not only our daughter but her family, husband Terry and son Liam, and other extended family members as well. Be there as they need me always willing to help and do anything that is needed.
Another of my resolutions is to get some kind of exercise daily. That is no matter what the weather might be on the outside, exercise regardless whether it’s braving the elements or doing something inside.
We had our six-year-old grandson Christmas Eve and Christmas morning. It was such a privilege and pleasure. Getting up and down off the floor in doing things with him was fun but seemed a challenge which it shouldn’t be even at my age.
Exercising will help keeping me mentally more sharp, too, I believe, and I think right now considering the circumstances that is really important.
Eat a little healthier. Makes sense when I think about it with some of the health issues I have.
These resolutions are aimed at living a more healthy life and I think it’s time I do more of that.
Being more patient and tolerant in daily life with others, especially right now when it would be much easier to go on and not do that. Listening to others and having the willingness to hear what they are saying is so important right now.