Happy New Year

Every New Year presents new challenges, new blessings, new successes, new failures… just lots of new stuff.
This one started off differently. I overslept. I don’t know if this is a harbinger of things to come or just a one time deal. 
For the last few days I have considered the New Year and now it’s here. In many ways it’s no different than last year, so far. It’s just as dreary outside this morning as it was when I went to bed last night. Two birds just committed suicide by running into our windows. They have been doing that for years. I will go go church and thereafter prepare my “traditional” New Years Day meal. In our family, it’s tradition that I do the cooking on New Year’s Day and my repertoire is limited so the guests, if any, will know what to expect.
I guess what I’m trying to say is that this year will only be new if we are new. The world around us is going to be pretty much the same. If we want anything to be different, we need to act differently and not insanely. By that I refer to the old saying that insanity is doing the same thing repeatedly and yet expecting a different result.
The biggest thing about a New Year is like any other new day: new opportunity. Today we have a chance to do things differently, to do things better than we have before. We can trust Christ more. We can live more as He taught. We can love more. We can do more. Or we can do the same old same old.
What’s it going to  be?
Happy New Year.
Nick 

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