Did you make a New Year’s resolution? Are your resolutions addressing true needs in your life? Sure, diet and exercise can help us be a better steward. Our body is a temple of the Holy Spirit. Good health enables us to use our gifts and talents to serve the Lord. That takes care of stewardship of talent, but what about time and treasure? There is no better time than a fresh new year to examine our prayer life and charitable generosity. Developing a deeper relationship with God and answering his call to be a good steward with the gifts He has given us is a resolution with eternal benefits. “Pray without ceasing. In all circumstances give thanks, for this is the will of God for you in Christ Jesus” (1 Thessalonians 5:17-18). Technology makes it easy to make time for prayer. Archangel Radio or Catholic apps like Laudate and Hallow are excellent tools to help us enrich our prayer life. Fr. Mike Schmitz offers a Bible-in-a-Year podcast where he reads and reflects on the Bible in just 20 minutes a day for a year. He also offers a Catechism-in-a-Year podcast that explains the Catechism of the Catholic Church with daily reflections over a year. These are all excellent ways to spend a morning or afternoon commute. Taking time out of each day to pause and listen to God’s voice, seek His guidance, and thank Him are the first steps to a deeper relationship with Christ. We are all called to give sacrificially. While that looks different for everyone, only we can evaluate our capacity to give. How long has it been since we increased our weekly contribution to our parish or our pledge to the Catholic Charities Appeal? As good stewards, we are all called to give sacrificially, proportionate to our income. “Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Put me to the test, says the LORD of hosts, and see if I do not open the floodgates of heaven for you, and pour down upon you blessing without measure!” (Malachi 3:10). With God’s grace, we can accomplish all of our New Year’s resolutions and with resolutions to be good stewards, we will be graced with a deeper relationship with God. — Shannon Roh is the Executive Director of the Office of Development and Stewardship for the Archdiocese of Mobile.