HERE COMES 2003! I always look forward to New Year's. This year, I jotted down a little something about my thoughts and feelings for the coming year. I want to share them with each of you. Remember to sieze each day. Love Life and respect the Giver of each moment. God Bless and Keep You Cadi
God teaches us about life in the most unique ways. Rather than experiencing Great Endings or Sudden Beginnings, we often discover that life merges into a pattern of beginnings and endings that silently transpose our existence. So seamless are these changes, that we are often unaware how altered our life is, until we take deliberate pains to notice.
Each New Year is an excellent example of this pattern. At a precise moment, the stroke of midnight, we slip silently from one year to the next. No natural phenomenon surrounds this event, in fact, without prior knowledge, we could not even recognize it's happening. And yet, our world is forever changed in that one moment.
Everything that has happened in the previous months is suddenly part of "another year." Memories seem a little more distant, perhaps a since of nostalgia surrounds their resurrection. Past mistakes seem less burdening, as the distances between them and our present life continue to widen.
A sense of renewed hope will also lighten our steps as we face the weeks ahead. The "clean slate" that a New Year offers provides hope that our lives have purpose. Our mission on the this Earth cannot be complete so long as we are still here. God will give of us opportunities in this coming year to spread His Gospel, fulfill our duty, and find our unique destination.
The months ahead will bring their own changes. Silently they will come, as they have in the past. In some sense, each one of us will experience hope and fear, laughter and tears, life and death. At the end of it all, our lives will be forever altered, whether for the good or the bad. Twelve months from now, the clock will once again strike midnight, the year will slip from our grasp, and the adventures of our present tomorrow, will be the memories of "yesteryear"
"Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away" James 4:14 |
