A Neighbor Asked Us to Share This New Year Resolution...
An unhoused friend in our Neighbor Care ecosystem wrote this on the eve of the new year. He’s spent decades choosing proximity over comfort, service over security. He asked us to share it.
We offer it without edits.
For Citizens of These Nations
We resolve to reject passivity and cynicism. Citizenship in an interconnected world is not limited to voting or obedience; it includes attention, discernment, and moral courage.
We resolve to resist narratives that reduce other peoples to enemies, abstractions, or threats.
We resolve to hold our institutions accountable not only for national success, but for global responsibility.
We resolve to live in ways that align with the future we claim to want—reducing harm, valuing truth, and refusing to normalize cruelty or indifference.
We resolve to remember that culture, consumption, and consent shape power as surely as laws and weapons do.
We acknowledge that ordinary lives, aggregated across billions of people, determine whether systems become humane or destructive. Participation is unavoidable; the only question is whether it is conscious.
A Shared Commitment
We resolve, together, to act as co-authors of a livable and sustainable future rather than as rivals racing toward collapse. Equity is not an abstract moral luxury; it is a condition for stability. Sustainability is not a concession; it is a requirement of reality. Peace is not the absence of conflict alone, but the presence of systems that allow all to survive and contribute with dignity.
In 2026, we resolve to live as if relationship is primary, truth requires care, and power carries responsibility. We do not promise perfection. We promise participation—attentive, ethical, and informed by the knowledge that what we do next will shape the world we all must inhabit.
This is not a resolution for one nation or one people. It is a resolution for a shared world, still in the process of becoming.
This is Green Mountain Justice.
Human-centered ministry and advocacy. Not performative; proximal. Not presuming to speak for our disenfranchised neighbors. Making space for them to speak for themselves. Voices and experiences that carry wisdom our community of communities needs to hear.
