No not 2012, but 2022. In 2012 my thoughts, my pleas, my prayers were these …

The New Year is fast approaching ~ many of us see the new year as a new beginning, a time to reflect on our lives the past year and resolve to make changes, correct past mistakes, start over.

Tonight I’m thinking why wait every 365 days. I’m going to resolve to make everyday a new beginning; everyday as the sun sets I hope to be thankful for the blessings in my life, to forgive others, to forgive myself and ask for forgiveness for the wrongs I have done. I hope to go to sleep each night with a resolve to look at the new day as a new beginning and opportunity to grow and put the past behind me.

Ten years, it has always been the hope in my heart to live by this creed, I have not always succeeded but I start new every morning. Even so there is something sobering about the new year. A section of time with a beginning and an end. A section of time that records history, life and death and lays it out in 365 day blocks.

The holidays are over, the fireworks have started celebrating and welcoming the new year recorded as 2022. In ten years where will I be? I don’t know. As always, my hope and prayer remain that I see each day as a new beginning, that I count my blessings and fully trust God whatever each day brings.