A different To Do list

Happy New Year to all ...

Here's a different way to begin the year ... instead of making impossible resolutions, try this "To Do" list for the year.

Wishing you a wonderful and loving 2004 ...
and may peace come to all of us everywhere.

Joyce Wycoff

To Do List:
by Rev. Lee Reid

Mend a quarrel.
Seek out a forgotten friend.
Dismiss suspicion, and replace it with trust.
Write a love letter.
Share some treasure.
Give a soft answer.
Offer encouragement.
Manifest your loyalty in word and deed.
Keep a promise.
Find the time.
Forgive an enemy.
Listen.
Apologize if you are wrong.
Try to understand.
Flout envy.
Examine your demands on others.
Think first of someone else.
Appreciate.
Be kind; be gentle.
Laugh a little.
Laugh a little more.
Deserve confidence.
Take up arms against malice.
Decry complacency.
Express your gratitude.
Welcome a stranger.
Gladden the heart of a child.
Take pleasure in the beauty and wonder of the earth.
Speak your love.
Speak it again.
Speak it still once again.

by Reverend Lee Reid
Nov-Dec 1996 Newsletter
Unitarian Universalist Society of the Palisades

Thanks to Amy Taylor who tells us:

Rev. Lee Reid was a Unitarian Universalist minister from Paramus, New Jersey. She was a woman who lived peace. She died unexpectedly in a car accident several years ago, and a collection of her writings was published posthumously in her honor - 'Saints and Souls'. This list is from that book. Thank you for the work you do in this world. Amy Taylor

If we could remember nothing else in the year 2004, perhaps it should be to --

Speak our love.
Speak it again.
Speak it still once again.

joyce