WE LOVE YOU, HOLLY!!!
(Relax, I know you’re married — your hubby’s a lucky guy, though. Of course, so is Therese’s!)
And speaking of relaxing …
Yes, having patience is SO HARD for **everyone,** particularly those of us with depression.
At the same time, Holly, I like the way you structure your New Year’s resolution as a prayer.
As (with a big push from Beliefnet, Therese, you, and all its wonderful members) I’ve become more spiritual this year, even with some of my doubts about organized religion, it has overall given me more patience — despite enormously trying life circumstances and the occasional setbacks everyone on BB, at least, has read about on my blog.
So I think you are right to connect spirituality to patience — whether in the Judeo-Christian tradition we share, Islamic tradition, or particularly Eastern traditions, which focus so much on patience. In making the key link, and following it through (even year after year) in your resolutions/prayers, to me you’ve done what both Aristotle and Mary Poppins advocated: “Well begun is half-done.”
(And I think you owe yourself a little pat on the back — see, the first three letters of “patience” already! — for using your Bnet Health groups such as How to Stress Less to help bring the gift of patience to others.)
Happy New Year!

My New Year’s Resolution, isn’t really a resolution but a new way of thinking. I have noticed that when I get together with friends, or on the phone with my favorite friend, we end up discussing our most recent doctor’s appointments. Or worse yet, the lack of getting treated fast enough, or having the same tests done over and over again with no onward move to an end to the problem. Since we can’t solve the problem and it seems universal in my circle of friends, I have decided to be less pessimistic with the medical crowd and change the subject after a caring timelimit to other more relaxing comments and discussions. Just my way to make my environment a bit more peaceful.

I wish my computer was’nt mute! Still can’t read lips either. Maybe my new years resolution should be to learn more new things and (this is a biggy for me) To ask for help when I need it! As I’ve been reading through some of the posts I realize it’s an awfully big “same boat” I’m in. (perhaps a “Ship of Fools”) Then again who am I to say what’s foolish? I just want to say I am still ever so happy to have found this blog! Now I just got to find a Job!!!