resoulute.

with childlike anticipation and seeing the world with eyes of CHRIST i read this and was shaken.
i love the way this is presented. i hope continue to see the world as a creation revealing the glory of the creator.

10 Resolutions for Mental Health
October 22, 1976, Clyde Kilby


Psalm 19:1“The sky is telling the glory of God.”


1. At least once every day I shall look steadily up at the sky and remember that I, a
consciousness with a conscience, am on a planet traveling in space with
wonderfully mysterious things above and about me.

2. Instead of the accustomed idea of a mindless and endless evolutionary change to which we can neither add nor subtract, I shall suppose the universe guided by an Intelligence which, as Aristotle said of Greek drama, requires a beginning, a middle, and an end.

I think this will save me from the cynicism expressed by Bertrand
Russell before his death when he said: "There is darkness without, and when I
die there will be darkness within. There is no splendor, no vastness anywhere,
only triviality for a moment, and then nothing."

3. I shall not fall into the falsehood that this day, or any day, is merely another ambiguous and plodding twenty-four hours, but rather a unique event, filled, if I so wish, with worthy potentialities.

I shall not be fool enough to suppose that trouble and pain are wholly evil parentheses in my existence, but just as likely ladders to be climbed toward moral and spiritual manhood.

4. I shall not turn my life into a thin, straight line which prefers abstractions to reality. I shall know what I am doing when I abstract, which of course I shall often have to do.

5. I shall not demean my own uniqueness by envy of others. I shall stop boring into myself to discover what psychological or social categories I might belong to. Mostly I shall simply forget about myself and do my work.

6. I shall open my eyes and ears. Once every day I shall simply
stare at a tree, a flower, a cloud, or a person. I shall not then be concerned
at all to ask what they are but simply be glad that they are. I shall joyfully
allow them the mystery of what Lewis calls their "divine, magical, terrifying
and ecstatic" existence.

7. I shall sometimes look back at the freshness
of vision I had in childhood and try, at least for a little while, to be, in the
words of Lewis Carroll, the "child of the pure unclouded brow, and dreaming eyes
of wonder."

8. I shall follow Darwin's advice and turn frequently to
imaginative things such as good literature and good music, preferably, as Lewis
suggests, an old book and timeless music.

9. I shall not allow the
devilish onrush of this century to usurp all my energies but will instead, as
Charles Williams suggested, "fulfill the moment as the moment." I shall try to
live well just now because the only time that exists is now.

10. Even if
I turn out to be wrong, I shall bet my life on the assumption that this world is
not idiotic, neither run by an absentee landlord, but that today, this very day,
some stroke is being added to the cosmic canvas that in due course I shall
understand with joy as a stroke made by the architect who calls himself Alpha
and Omega.

i found this on john piper's website, here is the original link: http://www.desiringgod.org/Blog/2161_10_resolutions_for_mental_health/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+DGBlog+%28DG+Blog%29&utm_content=Twitter