Tag Archive: new year

How to be a Witness/How to be a Friend

Love. Think. Speak. Know. Creatures, I give you yourselves! ~ C.S. Lewis (Aslan in The Magician’s Nephew) We’ve been listening the audio cassettes (that’s right) of The Chronicles of Narnia and I was so moved by this scene in which Aslan sings Narnia and all its creatures into being. Afterwards, he stands back and he…

How to Make Resolutions… and Break Them!

My daughter has a goal to be the first six-year-old with a hundred-dollar bill. I don’t have the heart to tell her about the Vanderbilt/Whitney/Mary-Kate and Ashley set. So far she’s accumulated three twenties from her weekly payoffs/allowances. I’m glad she has a goal, even if the economy has turned our notions of thrift and…

How to Set Priorities

Before another year unfolds, ask yourself “What are my top 10 priorities in life?” Jot them down, rank them 10-1 and be sure they go FIRST into your jar of life.