Three Strategies to Welcome the New Year

Three Strategies to Welcome the New Year

With a flip of the page, one year ends, and another roars into existence. Three-hundred sixty-five days of hopes, dreams, and challenges lay ahead. Already, blank spaces begin to fill with appointments. Some of us deliberate over annual goals or resolutions while...
Holding to God’s Promises and One Word in 2022

Holding to God’s Promises and One Word in 2022

“All endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the time.” Few words are more apt than those by Mitch Albom–especially as 2021 fades and a New Year settles on the edge of the Earth’s axis. As history closed on one period of time and...
Trusting God in 2019-A New Year of Hope

Trusting God in 2019-A New Year of Hope

  As last year is enveloped by the unknown of 365 untouched tomorrows, images of unspoiled beauty flit through my mind. The petals of a flower unfurling beneath the sun. A freshly birthed baby’s lusty mewling as his lungs exhale for the first time. The...
The Word for 2013

The Word for 2013

I’ve never been one to make New Year’s resolutions.  I guess I’ve always thought of it as something that seems mildly unimportant and easily dismissed–especially when a flourless chocolate torte in a pool of raspberry sauce looks tantalizingly...