Something For Sunday
At the end of the old year, we stand looking toward the new. With the New Year comes the reality of another chance. A seasoned saint use to say at each year’s Watch Night service: ” Children, God has allowed me to write the last page of this year’s journal. I close that book and prepare to begin a new journal and if permitted, I will also finish it.” In other words, the New Year gives us another chance. Another chance to do the best that we can. Another chance to work for the betterment of all mankind. Another chance to live as we believe knowing that we are protected. 2016 offers another chance.
Three quotes that will fuel my journey into the new year and shape my desire to live as I believe.
Alfred Lord Tennyson: Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come whispering, it will be happier. The many failures of 2015 gave rise to frustration and many unanswered questions for anyone concerned with reconciliation and renewal. Our hope is that 2016 will be happier.
Bill Kenna: Yesterday is history, tomorrow a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it present. I accept God’s present. I will use this gift to undergird my actions in the new.
J.R.R. Tolkien: There is good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for. The fight is on. A charge to keep have I.
Finally I will encourage myself with this acronym solidly placed in my database(brain): H.O.P.E. (Hold On, Pain Ends)
Happy New Year one and all!
