Actually, I do have a resolution

I take back what I said about one year not necessarily being different from the next, because I have been thinking something specific as it relates to this year, and, I plan, future years.

That is the motto and energy with which I approach this year. I am an energetic, apparently yellow aura kind of person already. What I need to recall to mind is this: that I have enough.

I mean this in every sense: physical belongings, cute outfits, space in my home, time in my day, food in the fridge, ability to get what I need to live, intelligence. I have enough. Thanks be to God, I have never truly experienced want. Why on earth would I ever be ungrateful for what I have?

I call this to mind because, especially around the holidays, it is easy to get sucked up into what we don’t have. A gift as good as someone else’s, a family as nice as someone else’s, enough of a bonus to take a big trip. Whatever it is.

Instead, I want to re-position this thinking in my own life entirely. While I have not truly gone without, there is no doubt that as humans we will, for example, experience loneliness. Or, a lack of love from the people who should love us most. Or, a sense of injustice for being passed over for something that ought to have been ours. You know what I mean.

Even then, the response is to say, I have enough, because you do. What I mean by that is: you have God. You have hope. You have tomorrow (unless, God willing, you lose your life, in which case, God, today is enough, because You say so). To say you have enough is to say you trust God. Not only that, but that you are grateful.

It is a freeing thought: I have enough. Try it.