New Year's Resolution

Dear Parishioners, friends, and family in Christ,

“Are we there yet?” Where exactly is there? Do we know where we are going? Are we on the right path? 

As we usher in another new year, 2012, we ask ourselves questions like these, and try to examine our lives. 

Greek philosopher and scientist Democritus once said, “Life unexamined is not worth living,” but the flip side of this quote would be, “Life examined, by and lived according to our God’s commandment, is worth living!” 

The first month of each year is called January, which literally means the “month of Janus.” Janus was a Roman god of gates and doorways who had two faces, one at the front and one at the back of the head, looking in opposite directions. 

In a sense, we are like Janus, we look to our past with its mistakes, failures as well as achievements, and we look forward in hope that with God’s grace we will not perpetuate our past mistakes. 

Back in 2004, the founder of Apple Inc., Steve Jobs, during the commencement speech to the graduating class at Stanford University said, “If you live each day of your life as if it were your last, someday you will most certainly be right. 

I ask myself each day looking into the mirror if today were the last day of my life would I want to do what I’m about to do today? And whenever the answer's been no for too many days, I know I need to change something.” 

How true! We should be asking ourselves the same question everyday, “If today were my last day, would I like to do what I am about to do today?”

Yours in Christ!

Fr. Peter Jae Choi