A New Year’s Resolution That Is Always on My Mind. By Fr. Gordon J. MacRae

If the past is always on my mind, and the things I should have said and done still haunt me, then it may be time to give the past its due and get on the road again.
“When I was a child, I used to talk as a child, think as a child, reason as a child; when I became a man, I put childish ways aside.”
— 1 Corinthians 13:11
In “A Glorious Mystery for When the Dark Night Rises,” I wrote of an event from my childhood growing up in the early 1960s in a city just north of Boston. We were more or less free-range kids then, though mostly unheard of today. We both roamed and ruled the streets without much in the way of parental supervision. Our cities were safer then, or so we believed.
As a child of the 1960s and that chaotic decade’s sounds of social revolution, I spent much of my past life disparaging country music. In the years before hard rock and heavy metal, leading up to Ed Sullivan exposing us to the British invasion, I made up my mind without ever really being attuned to it that …More