Dunblane Cathedral Magazine January 2009

No. 205 January 2009 http://www. dunblanecathedral. org. ukADDRESS Let’s Take A New Direction THE THOUGHT of a New Year’s Resolution in the middle of Advent leaves me in a cold sweat. IamwritingthisonDecember 12 because everybody is cranking up for... More

No. 205 January 2009 http://www. dunblanecathedral. org. ukADDRESS Let’s Take A New Direction THE THOUGHT of a New Year’s Resolution in the middle of Advent leaves me in a cold sweat. IamwritingthisonDecember 12 because everybody is cranking up for Christmas and there won’t be time to get it together for January if we leave it any later; so the newsletter deadline has been moved up by a week and it’s looming large. So here I sit, trying to put myself into that unique New Year mindset – the almost palpable deep breath everyone seems to take come January 1st (well, by the 2nd or 3rd at least) - the one that seems sensibly to say “party over, let’s get serious, let’s get organized, and decide where this year is going to take us. ” Resolve It’s almost a mental dusting down, a spring clean of the brain come early, but I’m failing… if I can manage to keep up my resolve to remember where I’m supposedtobeandwhatIsaid I’d do, then I feel I deserve to pat myself on the back and hum a wee fest Less