New Year resolutions, if wisely made and wholeheartedly kept, can have a marked effect on our physical health as well as our mental and moral well-being. The mental, moral, and physical aspects of humanity's identity are indissolubly related. All three must be improved before the normal state of man's spiritual perfection is demonstrated.
Most of the resolutions people make at the beginning of a new year could be said to come under the heading of moral culture: be more honest, more loving, punctual, reliable, patient, temperate, orderly, and so on. Specifically our list of good intentions might include such items as: pay debts promptly, never criticize others destructively, rely more radically on God.
These objectives are obviously humanly worthwhile. If they are faithfully kept, we not only become better, more moral people, but we pave the way to having better health ourselves, and strengthen our ability to help others.
