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Making Life Count: Insights for Success in 2013

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In light of this being the first Sunday of the new year, we will depart from the gospel readings today, which I addressed a few weeks ago in my homily on the Newtown shootings, and focus our sermon on our attitudes for the new year. We’re all making our New Year’s resolutions, we’ve had a chance to review the old year, and we are still with hope that we can improve in 2013. I’m reminded what the late Erma Bombeck, said, however, about New Year’s resolutions….”there is nothing so deceiving that the first four hours of a diet.” I’m sure you’ve noticed that each year almost all the major news magazines put out an issue with special pictorial sections recalling people & events that made news during the previous year. Many magazines also include articles by experts predicting what they expect to see happening in the years ahead. Some even go so far as to make predictions covering 10, 20, or more years in the future. In the past, a few of these predictions have proven amazingly