Tuesday, January 18, 2005
THE NEW YEAR
We are now 18 days into the year 2005. The ending of one year and the beginning of another seems so important to time-conscious people that we accept the change as a basic part of our world, like the sunset and the dawning.
But human beings make some of our divisions of time. The change from the old year to the New Year is one of these. On New Year’s Eve many blow horns, ring bells, shoot guns, or whatever, to usher out the old year and welcome the new year. But human beings are the only creatures that notice the old year’s going and the New Year’s coming.
Cardinals at the bird feeder will not observe New Year’s Day, nor will deer browsing in cedar thickets. They have no interest in our preoccupation with time.
Americans (and I am sure citizens of other countries, too) rush about in an effort to keep time schedules, punching clocks, eating “on the hour” and even neatly timing worship services on Sundays.
It would be good if more often we would not measure our lives so much by calendars and clocks. It would be good if we could, or would, measure our lives by the unhurried pace of Christ. He had so little time”, yet always had enough for the nourishment of his soul, for fellowship with His Father, and for anyone who needed Him.
I need to learn that as the struggles, or the “Hairballs”, of life come, that I should go forward with a steadfast confidence that I may learn some good from each event I face. I need to learn that I can nourish my soul toward further growth relative to anything that happens to my loved ones or me.
But I haven’t learned that yet. I still get upset with some of life’s less pleasant
situations.
So, “HAPPY NEW YEAR!”
Jim
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