The holidays are over; church activities have settled down -- for a bit. Now I'm back to committing to a more regular writing schedule. Here is my contribution for today (actually written December 30!)
One thing I like about this time of year is that it gives me a chance to review promises kept and broken, happiness and sorrows, successes and failings. And it gives me a chance to make changes --for the coming year-- or at least hope for changes.
In reality, New Year's Day is just another day, a rising and setting of the sun, our moon in one night of its waxing or waning. The invention of the calendar must have come out of serious reflection and study of the cycles and rhythms of our Earth, but gives us a tangible way to mark the cycles.
No matter how disappointing a year might have been, having a "new year" just around the corner gives us a chance to hope and often the incentive to make that hope become real. How much more inspiring is that hope in One, the manifestation of the greatest Hope of all people, birthed in the form of divine human-ness. Jesus Christ, born each Christmas, each day in the form of hope, born each moment in our hearts when we hear His Holy Spirit whisper.
Hope is truly holy. As our pastor says, "Hallelujah! Amen!"
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