For Our Good, Always

With January upon us, we all cast about for resolutions; we are resolved that we will forgo, forgive, improve, or conquer, aided by a clean calendar and the fresh airs of a new year. At the same time, we look back with some regret at the cruel rapidity of time and our slipshod performances of last New Year’s resolutions. Somehow, we ran out of calendar before attaining those lofty goals.

Each new year, we’re forced to admit some degree of failure. We see the besetting sins, the broken relationsh...