Resolution

Reflecting on 2010 brought a mixture of both joyful remembrance and sad regret. The regrets were mostly on the homefront: regret for the hours I spent "minding" my kids instead of raising them, "tolerating" my husband instead of loving him. Sins of omission, rather than commission.

While reading and reflecting I was greatly encouraged by an excerpt from a letter by Catherine Booth to her husband (the founders of the Salvation Army). This is my prayer for 2011.

"If you will seek home, love home, be happy at home, I will spend my energies in trying to make it a more than ordinary one;

it shall, if my ability can do it, be a spot sunny and bright, pure and calm, refined and tender, a fit school in which to train immortal spirits for a holy and glorious heaven, a fit resting-place for a spirit pressed and anxious about public duties;

but oh, I know it is easy to talk, I feel how liable I am to fall short,
but it is well to purpose right,
to aim high,
to hope much;

yes, we will make home to each other the brightest spot on earth, we will be tender, thoughtful, loving and forbearing, will we not? Yes, we will!"