A Christmas Carol

"Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead," said Scrooge. "But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change. Say it is thus with what you show me!"


I love to read this every year... something about the genius of the verbiage combined with the themes of the book (and the fact that I can hear muppets in my head saying the words along with me as I read) makes me feel like it is Christmas for sure!


As a play on the quote above, I was just wondering, if the ghosts of your past, present and future were to come to you today, what would you regret?  What would you be happy about seeing?  And what would you (after seeing the "big picture" of your life) want to depart courses from things that you are engaged in at the moment?


I think for me the one thing that I am not totally ecstatic about in my past and present life is how busy I get.  This last semester reached kind of a breaking point for me.  I had a ton that I was trying to juggle and I did juggle them successfully.  But at what cost?  I know that I was not as patient at home with my daughter and I know that I did not work on any of my most important relationships at all.  I have wonderful friends and family, but if I don't take time to enjoy them, I feel like it will get to a point where I will lose something extremely valuable in the exchange.  Don't get me wrong, I was doing things that I have wanted to do and am glad to say I have done them, but I think I was running faster than I had strength, if you will.  This is one thing in sitting down to reflect on the last year and making new resolutions for 2011 that I would really like to depart from and really take the time to just be and just breathe.  


Do any of you have new years resolutions?  Or was there any part of the book that spoke to you?


I hope you enjoyed reading this as much as I do every year!  Merry Christmas!


"I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach. Oh, tell me I may sponge away the writing on this stone!"

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