By Tony Lobl, a Christian Science Practitioner in the U.K. and blogger with the Huffington Post
Lemmings – those furry little rodents that regularly throw all caution to the wind and jump into the seething ocean convinced they are going to get to the other side.
By now many of us have done a good job of imitating them in the ritual of the New Year’s Resolution.
We have (to a greater or lesser extent) willingly thrown ourselves into the chasm of commitment, convinced that what is really just another day has some magical component which will miraculously allow us to swim against the tide of our human nature.
Unlike many of the lemmings, of course, we live to tell the tale of floundering against the waves of character reform inertia. We live to feel the bruises caused by the returning surf bringing back the debris of whatever habits or traits we had resolved to confine to the dustbin of our personal history.
And that’s just 1 January. By 2 January…well, you get the picture…...continue reading