I am doing a new thing.
—Isaiah 43:19
We have moved out of the old year and into the new—a time of emancipation from the past and an embracing of the present.
It is, of course, artificial. Looking at a circle, you can’t know the point of its beginning or ending. Nor is there any rational reason to regard any specific day as the last or first in a year’s cycle.
Be that as it may, it is pleasant—and legitimate—to relegate the past to the past, let bygones be bygones, and look with happy anticipation to traveling a new stretch of road. Properly used, it’s an attitude that can carry us to better times.
I like to greet the first of January as a representative of new beginnings, fresh starts, and decisive resolutions.
Happy New Year