The cultivation of our love for God isn’t something we can nurture all on our own.
New Year’s is perhaps the only holiday that requires its celebrants to continue the ‘festivities’ months and months after the day is out.
After all the partying and fellowship die down, most people can’t help but get started setting goals and making resolutions. As a matter of fact, a full 40% of the nation’s population makes New Year’s resolutions each year. Of course, the size and scale of these goals often differs from person to person. Many set out to change their budgets, bodies, homes, or education levels. Others want to focus on emotional well-being or the building of meaningful interpersonal connections with others.
But regardless of the specific area of interest, there exists a couple of common denominators between these resolutions worth acknowledging. First and foremost, everyone seems to want more of something specific in their lives. Statista performed a study in 2017 on individuals’ New Year’s resolutions across the country. When asked, 53% of respondents wanted to save more money, 24% of respondents wanted to travel more, 23% wanted to read more books. Others wanted to increase their own personal health by losing weight, getting in shape, or quitting smoking.
Of course, it’s not that any of these things individually are wrong. Many of us could benefit from books, travel, or a little weight loss. What’s most impressionable here is the theme of discontentment; we are a society full of perpetually unsatisfied people, hungry for more of whatever we can get our hands on.
Second, when it comes to New Year’s resolutions, it seems that the method we use for going about getting to the ‘more’ we’ve set our sights on is the same across the ...
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