My old grandmother used to say that some people's promises are like pie crusts - made to be broken. New Year resolutions may soon be broken. So why bother? D.H.Farmer wrote, 'The true vow is the attempt to capture the high and serious moment, to take it out of the transciencies and make it one of the permanencies of the soul's life, to condense out of the vapour of feeling a solid mass and momentum of directed will'.
It helps us to keep our promises if we call other people to witness them - as happens in a wedding ceremony. We are also helped if our vows are made to God and with a consciousness of his presence and available help.
A life without vows, like a long sentence without punctuation marks, is likely to sag. But meaningful vows help us to live by our high moments and not our low ones. Resolutions then lead to revolutions in life and living.
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