Like many of you, I can’t believe another year is upon us. Within a handful of days, 2019 will utter the first wails of existence. Like a newborn baby in its mother’s arms, the new year arrives with a clean slate full of promise. Whatever events await us will unfold like a toddler learning to […]
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Welcoming 2016 With Promise
I enjoy new beginnings. Stepping forward into 2016 exercises faith—in a continuing world, a loving God, a life of surprises. This week a tiny green spear pushed up through the soil, having endured the recent ice storm, defied the torrent rain, and ignored the lack of sun. Promise pulsed from that little shoot, a pledge […]
Greet 2013 with Anticipation
The new year burns as bright with promise as the candle. This week I happened across an advice column where the writer decried the senseless violence at the end of last year and asked the columnist, with regard to the start of 2013, “What’s the use?” Indeed, with media coverage what it is and the […]