Beginning

 

     Today is the first day of the new year.  Everyone is pondering all the things that have happened over the past twelve months and trying to figure out how things may change during the upcoming twelve months.  Many are hopeful and some are a bit apprehensive about what the future will hold for them and their family.

      Some will look back on the past year and have a humorous perspective, trying to put a “better light” on things that have happened by using a joke to lighten the circumstances, while not making light of the actual events.  I saw a post recently showing this personal regard.  The individual said (by the end of December): “I had set myself a goal to lose 10 pounds during the year.  Now it is the end of December and I only have 14 pounds to go!”

 

     Others will only look at the past year and have anxiety about the things that have happened.  They will consider all the unfortunate loses of lives, both from the COVID and because of other reasons.  There is also the unemployment situations and the economic changes that have happened over the past year than many will take a long time correcting in their lives.  Many will have been touched personally by these things and will, no doubt, have feelings that nothing will be able to alleviate the emptiness within their hearts.

 

     There may yet be others who will simply attempt to deny within themselves that any of these actually happened and they will attempt to move on with their lives the best they can, trying to make sense of things within their own minds so they will be able to cope.

 

     With all these things and many others people are looking forward to a new beginning and hoping that this new year will help them reach some sort of normalcy to their lives that they have lost during the months of the pandemic and all that it brought upon them and their families

 

     Many will attempt to put their hopes within the scientific community because they have developed several vaccines that are promising to bring relief from the current heath crisis.  There will, no doubt, be many who will benefit greatly from the advancement within this medical situation and we certainly hope that will be the case for the vast majority. 

 

     There will be those who feel that their new beginning will come only by their own hard work and personal efforts and from the things that they are able to personally control.  And there will be many who will rise up and proclaim that they have the solutions to the problems currently faced by mankind, whatever those problems may turn out to be!

 

     The truth lies in the counsel at Jeremiah 10:23 where it states “It does not belong to man who is walking even to direct his step.”  If a man cannot direct his OWN steps, how can a man or a group of men direct the steps of billions of other people?  No, the real beginning for any one of us is when we accept the counsel at Philippians 4:6,7. “Do not be anxious over anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication along with thanksgiving, let your petitions be made known to God; ⁷ and the peace of God that surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and your mental powers by means of Christ Jesus.”

 

     When our new beginning brings our lives into harmony with the will of God, we will then find true peace and security and not some facade that is presented by the current affairs of the world.  As I have always said: “Our biggest problem lies in the fact that WE’RE ONLY HUMAN!”

    

QUOTE TO CONSIDER

THOUGHTFUL GEM

"With each new beginning comes the chance 

to change the things you have done wrong in the past."