Friday, January 1, 2021
Looking to the Light
As Our Way Forward
Leviticus 19:11
You shall not steal; you shall not deal falsely; and you shall not lie to one another.
1 Peter 3:8-9
Finally, all of you, have unity of spirit, sympathy, love for one another, a tender heart, and a humble mind. Do not repay evil for evil or abuse for abuse; but, on the contrary, repay with a blessing. It is for this that you were called—that you might inherit a blessing.
Words of Grace For Today
There is much that could be done which we know is wrong, and there is much we can do that is right. We pray for the wisdom to know the difference, and the courage to follow our hearts to know what is right. Most of all to forgive ourselves and all other people when what we do is not the best we could have done.
This New Year Day and the 364 days that follow, like all of the years and days before, is an opportunity for us to consider time past, time to come … and
most of all the time that is now, the present.
We take time to make promises to ourselves in the way of New Year Resolutions, which we know …
which we know from lots of experience
we WILL try to keep
and fail to do so
and we WILL try to forget what we know about ourselves,
so that we will be able to fool ourselves in the days ahead about the reality of our own weaknesses
in order that we can on our own make our way forward or pretend to make any progress in our lives on our own.
Happy New Year.
Make the best you can of everything, there is nothing that you can make perfect, yet in trying to make things better than they are, you just might completely miss what is most important: that we are at our best when we know we can at most be humble before God.
God gives us everything we need. So there is so much to do, and so much to be thankful for, and so much to do for others, so that they may live an abundant life.
What a life?
So what are we going to do this new day?
May it be blessed.