New Year's Resolution: Be More Mossy
My last article for 2025
It seems like yesterday that my thirteen-year-old self kissed a cute girl at a Newsboys concert.
Now I’m married to a forty-year-old woman!
As the horse-loving Spanish say: “El tiempo corre.”
Time runs.
A few weeks ago, my then-not-quite-so-ancient wife attended a women’s wreath-making night hosted by our church.
Fifty ladies got together to learn to make wreaths out of wild materials gathered from the woodlands by our pastor’s wife and her kids.
I’ve never loved a wreath so much in my life, particularly because of a sneaky little bit of British genius:
Hidden inside the wreath is an inner ring of moss.
As the moisture-laden English air breezes past our front door, the moss captures the moisture…
…and then uses it to nourish the holly, ivy, fir, and berries.
Brilliant, right?!
Rather than becoming dry, brittle, and cracked, our wreath is as fresh and green as the day Michelle brought it home.
Fair play to all the high-performers who resolve year-round and don’t need a mental starting gun to implement new habits, but most normie Western post-modernists are so cringe about resolutions.
It signals cynicism, laziness, non-intentionality, hopelessness, and a lack of self-esteem, self-discipline, and ambition.
Why would you not want to leverage any mental trick to kickstart a new habit that could seriously improve your life?
2026 is going to be brutal.
Real inflation is going to make you 10% poorer.
Muslims will murder more Jews, Christians, and Westerners.
Taxes and stealth taxes will go up.
Shareholders, bankers, and landlorders will continue to compound their monopolization of assets and power.
So, among other things, this year, I want to be more mossy.
I want to quietly nourish behind the scenes.
Helping and serving in little ways.
Smiling and saying good morning and good afternoon to strangers.
Giving.
Telling the truth.
Our culture, society, and civilization are under attack.
We’re withering.
Drying out.
Dessicating.
Becoming brittle.
Cracking.
We need people to capture and absorb the winds of the Spirit and spread that life-giving water to the people around them.
Let’s make 2026 juicy.
Hit reply/comment and tell me your resolutions for 2026.
Watch for free:
Red Light Green Light (human trafficking documentary)
Over 18 (pornography addiction documentary)
Redeeming Uncle Tom (slavery documentary)
Books:
A Year of Living Prayerfully (book on prayer)
Bearded Gospel Men (men’s devotional)
A God Named Josh (book about Jesus)
A Devil Named Lucifer (book about the devil)
While I appreciate hearing your perspective much of the time, the lack of reference to the grossly disproportionate destruction and slaughter of Innocents in Gaza has convinced me my money would be better spent elsewhere. If only Israel were back in the eye for an eye days and would limit their aggressions and retaliations to that formula. Go back to the religion before Christ, that would be far better than what's going on now. What's the ratio 10 to 1 or 100 to 1?
But it appears that your Jesus Christ is convinced that size doesn't matter. My Jesus was more practical than that. Since he dared to drive the money changers out of the Temple he surely would want to get the Israeli military out of the abortion, murder, maiming, amputating, orphaning, torturing, imprisoning, and punishing without judicial review and verification business.
And, unfortunately, I can no longer appreciate the heartwarming stories about your youth and your wife's wonderful English wreath. To me the oversight that followed turned my heart cold toward your perspective. Like putting lipstick on a pig. In my judgment you are majoring on relatively minor morality issues
I read "mossy" as "messy," and while we probably could stand to be a bit messier, I love the idea of being "mossy."