A Resolution for Every New Year

Sooner or later we admit that we cannot do it all, that whatever our contribution, the story is much larger and longer than our own, and we are all in the gift of older stories that we are only now joining. Whatever our success, we are all looked after by other eyes, and we are only preparing ourselves for an invitation to something larger.
- David Whyte, Crossing the Unknown Sea: Work as a Pilgrimage of Identity

One of my Facebook friends posted this in mid-December 2012. I think it is a tremendously powerful and truthful statement. It is enhanced in meaning when I add these other powerful and truthful words:

“To walk alone is possible, but the good walker knows that the trip is life and it requires companions.” - Dom Helder Camara

“It's a gift to joyfully recognize and accept our own smallness and ordinariness. Then you are free with nothing to live up to, nothing to prove, and nothing to protect.” - Richard Rohr

“If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each [one's] life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.” - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Oh, that we would each and all of us claim and live these truths as we journey through the coming year – yea, as we journey through the rest of our lives! This will be my perennial New Year's resolution.