Many of you, including me have made New Year’s Resolutions. Twelve days have pasted and you are already behind, and wishing that you had chosen another task. Why, because you got caught up in the moment and made a decision too quickly.  I am here to tell you that it is not too late to pick up where you left off, or change it to something within reach.

It took me many years before I was able to start writing. I felt like a failure at every year’s end because I had not done what I said I wanted to do. I wanted to write a book.  It did not dawn on me to do something else. Then one day I receive a phone call, during the pandemic, from one of my fellow Chaplains in the Civil Air Patrol (USAF Auxiliary).

I had finished a unit of CPE (Chaplains Pastoral Education) at one of the hospitals just before the pandemic.  During the pandemic, not even chaplains were allowed to be with the ill and dying patients. They had to do it remotely. One of the saddest times is when someone has been ill a long time, had lots of visitors, and dies alone. Sometimes the last visitors just left.

He told me how painful it was to not be able to physically spend time with the one he had loved so many years. So, he decided to write a blog in order to convey his feelings within himself and to others. This was the catalyst that pushed me to write a blog. It was a deviation, but you write books in parts, chapters, at different times.

“Our human tendency is to quit too soon. To stop before crossing the finished line. It shows up in the smallest of things—a partly cleaned room, a half-read book, or abandoned weight loss plan. Or it shows up in life’s most painful areas like a cold faith; a wrecked marriage, an un-evangelized world” Max Lucado.com.

 Sometimes you have to tweak your resolutions. The bible doesn’t teach quitting. James 5:11 says, “Behold, we count them happy which endure.” “Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up” (Galatians 6:9).