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Jan. 8, 2009 |
Daily Soul Retreat at SoulfulLiving.com |
Vol. I, Issue
514 |
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Five Life Lessons for the New Year
by Father Paul Keenan
 It’s the first of the year, and it is almost inevitable that we are drawn into a quest for life improvement. We call our good intentions resolutions, but despite our firm resolve, we often find them lying strewn along the proverbial infernal road before too long.
Is there any way to make our resolutions stick? Instead of rushing into resolutions, could we perhaps consider looking for life lessons? If we could take stock of what we know about life, what we have learned from living, perhaps then we could know what best to do, what best to resolve.
Everyone’s life lessons will be different, but here are five of mine to get you started. These are things I have come to know and believe in after nearly sixty years of living. Mull over them, argue with them, if you will, but let them lead you into lessons of your own.
1. Laughter and Tears Go Hand in Hand.
Many an old joke begins with the words, “There’s good news and there’s bad news.” Humor is often funny precisely because it is grounded in the world in which we live. It enables us to step back from our world, to get beyond the contents of it and to see a pattern...
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Copyright Fr. Paul Keenan. This article was originally
published at our website, SoulfulLiving.com, in January 2006,
as part of Soulful Living's "Life Lessons" Issue.
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"Instead of rushing into resolutions, could we perhaps consider looking for life lessons? If we could take stock of what we know about life, what we have learned from living, perhaps then we could know what best to do, what best to resolve."
--Fr. Paul Keenan |
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In Memory of Father Paul Keenan
We were deeply saddened to learn that Father Paul Keenan passed away on June 10, 2008. He has been a dear friend and wise and compassionate columnist for Soulful Living for six years. Father Paul was a generous, loving soul who always had a kind, healing word of encouragement to share. He
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