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2001 Soap Box Archives New Year’s 2001 As I sit here writing this piece it is early morning New Year’s Eve and I'm in beautiful Lake Tahoe where we will be bringing in 2001, and I'm trying to reflect on some of the changes I would like to make in my life in the coming year. New Year’s resolutions as it were. First and foremost, I very much desire to be a better Christian. I hope to spend more time in reading the Word of God and growing in my prayer life. I want to live closer to the golden rule and be more attentive to the feelings and needs of my fellow man. I feel I should be more vigilant about what I allow into my mind. There is so much trash on television and other forms of media today that it is extremely easy to get caught up in the decadence. I want to be a better husband. I couldn’t ask for a more faithful and caring wife and though we have a wonderful relationship I'm sure that I'm not the easiest person to live with sometimes. I want to be a better father to my son and daughter and law. The demands of my profession have at times taken precedence over the need to spend quality time with them and I hope to do better in the coming year. I want to be a better friend. I have some wonderful friends who I fail to make contact with on a regular basis. I want to be a true friend who really cares about their needs and feelings. I want to be a better and more productive musician. God has given me some talent and it is my fervent desire to make the most of it. I want to be a better employer. I have people who have been with me over twenty years and I dearly love each and every one of them. I want to do all I can to create the best working conditions I possibly can and do all I can to help insure their future. I want to be a more healthy person. My general health is good but I feel that I don’t always take good care of the body that God gave me. I want to be a better citizen. To vote every time they open the polls, to stand up for the people who can’t defend themselves and to criticize and fight the ones who would change this country into a Godless, socialistic society, dependent on entitlements and big government. I want to further the cause of good racial relations, to look down on no one, to feel myself superior to none, and to publicly disagree with those who promote disharmony, in whatever form. I want to be a more charitable person who cares about the infirmities, suffering and loneliness of others. I want to be a more truthful person, who do does not color, spin, nor sugar coat the truth, no matter what the circumstances. I want to be a more discerning person who takes the time to find the the right and wrong in every situation before rushing to judgment. I want to learn and grow in the coming year, to take advantage of the opportunities which come my way, to lend a helping hand or a kind word wherever I can, to live up to a potential which I have never fulfilled, to scale the heights, to put one foot in front of the other and keep on keeping on, day in and day out. Isn’t that what it’s all about? From all of us in The CDB family we wish you a healthy, happy, prosperous and blessed Two Thousand and One. God
Bless America
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