At the beginning of the first new millennium year in 2000 there was a resolution that read like a prayer, that ran like this :-
Let there be:
Peace for its people
Love in our lives
Delight in the good
Forgiveness for past wrongs
Well, we are now at the beginning of another New Year and another new start – that is if we want to make it a new start! It is so easy to make new resolutions and then forget all about them. It is easy to allow the familiar round of duty and work to overtake us, instead of taking a pause and seeing if there is anything we could be doing better or improving in our lives, to make our lives and the lives of others around us happier and more fulfilling. But why wait until a point in the calendar before making new resolutions? Resolutions can be made any time (and of course, sadly, broken any time.)
It is traditional to be taking stock of time (as it were) at the beginning of a new year, hence the ideas of new resolutions. Time itself is a mystery – infact time is only a relative thing. Outside and beyond the earth’s spinning which causes the seasons, winter and summer, seedtime and harvest, day and night, high tide and low tide – there is no time as we understand it – only the mystery of God’s eternity.
Every day is a new world, a new beginning.
‘Our future is greater than our past. The most authentic about us is our capacity to create, to over come, to endure, to love, to transform.’ (Ben Okri, Mental Fight)
Look into all our lives, none of us are exactly the same as we were twelve months ago – (I know I’m not) although we still essentially the unique beings we were born as. Life is about living and life itself is forever changing, like a plant that sheds its leaves and sends out new ones in a new season, so it is with all life and the passing of seasons.
Happy New Year and good resolutions !!
Mothers Union – another tasty evening back in November (all members are now called Darina Allen or Delia Smith) followed by a Christmas Party in December with a Healthy Option with natural products – a talk by Norman Brookes.
A big thank you to all who made our Christmas services so worthwhile – for the work of the two schools, for those who put up decorations, organists, readers and to all those whose ‘behind the scenes’ work is so vital.
Boys and Girls Brigades restart at 7pm on 10th January.
Vestry Meeting at 8.30pm at St Paul’s Hall.