Ellen Fannin, Director of Special Activities (and just about everything else!) at Unity Church of the Hills, read us her recipe for a Happy New Year at yesterday's service.
I do not have the restraint to wait until this last day of 2008 to share it with you.
Earlier this month, as I was planning for a holiday meal and I came across a recipe that I would like to share with you. It is a “Recipe for a Happy New Year.”
- Take twelve fine, full-grown months.
- See that these are thoroughly free from old memories of bitterness, rancor and hate.
- Cleanse them completely from every clinging spite.
- Pick off all specks of pettiness and littleness.
- In short, see that these months are freed from all the past—have them as fresh and clean as when they first came from the great storehouse of Time.
- Cut these months into thirty or thirty-one equal parts.
- Do not attempt to make up the whole batch at one time (so many persons spoil the entire lot this way), but prepare one day at a time.
- Into each day put equal parts of faith, patience, courage, work (some people omit this ingredient and so spoil the flavor of the rest), hope, fidelity, liberality, kindness, rest (leaving this out is like leaving the oil out of the salad dressing— don’t do it), prayer, meditation, and one well-selected resolution.
- Put in about one teaspoonful of good spirits, a dash of fun, a pinch of folly, a sprinkling of play, and a heaping cupful of good humor.
- Cover this with God's love and enjoy it to its fullest.
I cannot imagine a more delicious way to prepare and serve up 2009.
Happy New Year!
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