As you enter this new year, as you pack away the Christmas
decorations and get out your stretchy pants
as you face the onslaught of false promises offered you through
new disciplines and elimination diets
as you grasp for control of yourself and your life and this chaotic
world
May you remember that there is no resolution that, if kept, will
make you more worthy of love.
There is no resolution that, if kept, will make life less uncertain
and allow you to control a pandemic and your children and
the way other people act.
So this year,
May you just skip the part where you resolve to be better do better
and look better this time.
May you give yourself the gift of really, really low expectations.
May you expect so little of yourself that you can be super proud of
the smallest of accomplishments.
May you expect so little of the people in your life that you
actually notice and cherish every small lovely thing about them.
May you expect so little of the supply chain and the service
industry that you notice more of what you do get and less of
what you don't and then just tip really well anyhow.
May you expect to get so little out of 2022 that you can celebrate
every single thing it offers you, however small.
Because you deserve joy and not disappointment
So, I wish you a Happy as possible New Year.
~ from The Corners by Nadia Bolz-Weber, a reader-supported
publication, Dec 30, 2021
https://thecorners.substack.com/p/a-voice-memo-blessing-for-
a-new-year
