| Here is an idea about self improvement and using | | | | then seal it with candle wax. Once the paper is |
| winter solstice, New Year's resolutions or other | | | | sealed, we toss it into the fire in the fireplace. |
| rituals or ceremonies. See if you can come up | | | | After the paper has been consumed by the fire, |
| with your own. | | | | we spend some time is silence fixing firmly what |
| At the time of this writing, Winter Solstice is just | | | | our desires and plans are. We both believe in God |
| a few days past and New Years looms on the | | | | and so we spend some time in prayer to the |
| horizon. My wife and I have celebrated winter | | | | Infinite Source to help us in our endeavors. |
| solstice for the last three or four years. It is not | | | | Sometimes we share with each other what we |
| a religious time for us, but it is very spiritual. | | | | wrote and what are plans for change are and |
| We started doing this in an attempt at our own | | | | sometimes we keep it to ourselves. |
| self improvement. We tried New Year's | | | | The point here is not to copy what we do; I only |
| resolutions, but somehow they got lost. We | | | | share this with you to give you ideas. I suggest |
| weren't really able to be sincere as we often had | | | | you decide when a good time is for you, what |
| a house full of our kids and grand-kids on New | | | | time of the year, and build your ritual or |
| Years. One year we got the idea of doing the | | | | celebration around that. Make it a time when you |
| same sort of thing on winter solstice. | | | | can be alone with your thoughts. This is why so |
| We light a fire in our fireplace, if we are home, | | | | many New Year's resolutions fail. There is no |
| turn down the lights and light some candles. We | | | | thought or sincerity involved. |
| spend some time thinking about our lives and | | | | Try this out! It has helped us greatly and I think it |
| what we would like to change. What are the | | | | will you too. Follow your celebration, your ritual, |
| things we would like to lay down in our lives and | | | | your ceremony, whatever you want to call it, and |
| what are the things we would like to pick up. | | | | keep it close in your thought and actions through |
| When we have that fleshed out, we write these | | | | the coming year. See if it doesn't help! |
| things on a piece of paper. We fold the paper and | | | | |