While many feel the after holiday blues, I am quite the opposite. I love the holiday season and treasure every cookie baking, ornament hanging, Rudolph the Reindeer moment that comes with it. But, just as I wrap up delicate ornaments in tissue paper, I enjoy wrapping up the sweet moments I have accrued the last few weeks and tucking them into my memory. January is an exciting time for me. I am elated at the possibilities that lay before me. Each Christmas, my husband puts a brand new year planner in my stocking and before you can say Happy New Year, I have taken my favorite ink pen to the pages to begin planning for the months to come. Great joy comes with being able to start anew. Whether it is a bunch of hopeful resolutions or prayerful new directions, a new year can fill you with the promise of great new things. As you anticipate the new year, remember the one who cleaned the slate for you and left you with a fresh, new page to write upon. Christ wiped away the old years and set upon you the promise of change and spiritual prosperity. Pray to God that you can fill this year's blank pages with wonderful memories to cherish and spiritual missions that need to be accomplished. God bless everyone in 2011!
2 Corinthians 5:17
In Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
Thank you for the reminder about the new year being a clean slate. What an encouragement! Thank you, Lord, for new beginnings!
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