I am never one for New Year’s Resolutions. Well, I am for about 20 days. Like most of us, I want world peace, an end to injustice in all its forms and people to see themselves as wonderfully and creatively made in the image of God who loves us.

Perhaps, as profoundly, I want to take more time to be me.

To breathe a little more slowly

To read without feeling even the slightest bit guilty

To laugh more heartily

To be less inhibited by what I think others think

But for now, I think a dog walk is in order – Pippin and Samwise have no such concerns for their order in things.

Happy 2014