On to July!

Ok folks, New Year’s Resolution update. In a word, failure. Here's what's up...

My goal was to attend church more often. I had this whole plan to make going to this new church close by my condo each Sunday. Well Sundays are difficult because when I am out of town on the weekend, I miss it. So then I thought I could drop in and do a weekday Mass or two...and it just didn't happen.

Now in my defense I will say this, I like going to church and I don't want that to change. When we are kids I think we dread going to church because we have to wake up early and we are forced to do it. Well, as an adult, we make the decision to attend or not. And when I go to church, I love it. I always come away with a nice perspective and it feels good.

Now with my set goal of attending three times this month it was almost as though I was forcing myself to attend again. And while on Sundays I can go to the 530pm Mass, on the weekdays, it is 7am. So here I am being forced and waking up early to reach my goal.

So I didn't succeed. But I don't feel awful about it because I have found a new church, and I do still enjoy going. I know you shouldn't just give thanks to the Lord when you have time for it, but my relationship with God is just fine. I have a great life, I have him to thank, and I do that daily. I also think I do a pretty good job of being a pretty good person. I certainly am not perfect, and so I do attend church when I can. I always will.

So instead of dwelling on this particular monthly New Year's Resolution, I am going to cut my losses now and look ahead to next month.

And next up... Cook three nights a week! Now this may be really easy for some, but I have this really good habit of buying a bunch of stuff to cook in a week, then all of it spoiling because I work late, or have evening meetings. Not this month though. In the month of July I will succeed!!!

Stay tuned to find out if I do...

xoxo Sara Marie