I know what the calendar says. But New Years is more of a mindset than a holiday, and if your mind is not currently set on celebration, for you there was no reason to stay up late, raise a glass in a toast or watch a ball drop, especially if your mood is already down as you enter the hew year without the one you loved and lost… however long ago that may have been.
So many around me this year are in that exact spot and feel no reason to celebrate the hope of happiness that seems to have taken wing and flown away.
While reflecting on this one morning just before the turn of the year, I happened to look out my bedroom window. The sun had not yet risen and in those predawn minutes I could just barely see a bluebird perched on the edge of the heated water dish that sits on the deck railing, surrounded at the moment by snow. The bird was drinking repeatedly in the cold and the dark, knowing that daylight was about to break through.
May I suggest that we simply do the same? No matter how dismal and cold and heavy our life situations feel today, let us keep drinking deeply in the well of God’s love for us, secure in the knowledge that the Light will break through this current darkness, and better days are on the way. And when Hope finally has its way in your heart again, as it eventually will, raise a toast to the One Who loves you the most, and then celebrate your personal Happy New Year’s Day.
“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”
(Hebrews 11:1 KJV)
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