thought for the year

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This year, forget the hopeless resolutions. No one is going to diet seriously when it's freezing outside and the only relief is a large piece of cake. No one is going to go running everyday at 6 a.m. when it's still dark and icicles are forming at the tip of your nose. Make the resolution that really matters, that you can really keep.

Commit yourself to daily acts of kindness directed to others. Maybe next year, on the last Shabbat of the year, you won't have to search hard to answer what the nicest thing that you did for someone was in 2010.

And maybe, in thinking hard about an inventory of kindness this year, you'll also remember the nicest thing that someone did for you. Kindness: Pass it on.


Shabbat Shalom

- Erica Brown