Cagle Grams: What is a resolution?

James H. Cagle Guest Columnist “Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil” (Proverbs 4:27 KJV). A resolution is a promise, intent, purpose, plan, objective and aim. If we are resolute, or determined, set in purpose, deliberate, steadfast, unwavering, strong-willed and stubborn, we will keep our resolution. But so often the resolve we supposedly possess and exemplify can hardly be called resolve because there is no correlation between our so-called resolve and the dictionary’s definition of it. To define, the dictionary uses words and phrases like “having the mind made up; fixedness of purpose; boldly determined; and un