https://headhearthand.org/blog/2011/12/29/daily-list-6-new-year-resolution-questions/  Informing Minds. Moving Hearts. Directing Hands. Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:08:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 https://headhearthand.org/blog/2011/12/29/daily-list-6-new-year-resolution-questions/#comment-4704 Fri, 30 Dec 2011 16:47:16 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=5640#comment-4704 I begin every day asking my students
“Is every body happy?”
When one eventually asks
“What do you mean by ‘happy’?”
I then explain that happy is the pursuit of virtue
which leads to conversation regarding same.
So, maybe we (christians) should begin by asking
“what do you mean by ….?”

]]> https://headhearthand.org/blog/2011/12/29/daily-list-6-new-year-resolution-questions/#comment-4700 Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:34:16 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=5640#comment-4700 I agree with you Kat. As far as I know, Gretchen is not a Christian but I often think it’s helpful to see how non-Christians think and write. What are their priorities, motivations, aims, etc? It helps Christians reach them, and also helps Christian crystalize their own priorities, etc. They also have grains of helpful truth scattered here and there.

]]> https://headhearthand.org/blog/2011/12/29/daily-list-6-new-year-resolution-questions/#comment-4699 Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:26:03 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=5640#comment-4699 Although I don’t generally make resolutions at the beginning of a New Year, if I did I don’t think my first question would be about my happiness. Every year I pray that I will grow in my faith and my reliance on Him. If I’ve made progress that makes me happy and I really only find happiness, well let’s say contentment, when I do fully rely on Him in the day to day. I am content with where I am and what is going on only because I know that God is God and I am not and I’m grateful that He has let me be apart of it.

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