"I will not boast in anything
No gifts, no power, no wisdom
But I will boast in Jesus Christ
His death and resurrection ..."
Stuart Townsend, 'How Deep the Father's Love for Us', 1995
My mother gave me a nice little leather notepad a few years ago, which I decided to use to write down New Year's Resolutions - so I can actually remember them and also to keep track of my 'progress'. In 2010 I achieved 3 of the 6 - 50% - that I had resolved to keep at the start of that year (I was just as succesful in 2009), and I was somewhat happy with that, so much so that I'm pretty sure I was a bit boastful about it to the friends I was holidaying with to welcome in 2011. The resolutions I made for 2011 are a little easier again (one of which was to regularly update this blog), and so I thought at the time I might have more to boast about at the end of this year.
I heard the song that I opened this blog entry with in church on the 2nd of Jan 2011. It reminded me that boasting about anything else was pretty redundant. Paul's letters often have a similar trajectory too.
On the same theme (sort of...), I started reading the new Nick Hornby book 'Juliet, Naked' this week. One of the characters has an interesting idea (which he never carries through) of writing down on a sheet of paper the years of his life in order and a few words to describe each year. I wonder if people really did this exercise what would define their years - what would they boast about? Would our words ever contain Jesus?
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