It may sound cliché that someone out
there truly wishes you a happy new year but this one is right from the
bottom of my heart to yours and I hope it makes a difference in how this
year, day by day, gets to unfold. Remember that day, as the fireworks
transcended into the skies unfolding into a beautiful explosion of a
loud sonic boom featuring light and a colorful ensemble, engulfed in a
darkness so thick; while leaving behind a bloom of excitement and a joy I have never
found the right words to express in the hearts of an audience so
optimistic.
Fortunately or unfortunately, like a flash of lightning,
this doesn't last for so long. What lasts longer in the new chapter of
life it ushers everyone into. The rivers of life dictate that water flows consistently, failure of which it becomes stagnant and then it accumulates all the undesirables and eventually stinks. There is no growth wherever we settle and conform to the old.
There is something beautiful about new beginnings. Something that cannot be touched, but can be experienced and felt in the deepest of our hearts. Life is full of new beginnings most of which we have no idea how the ending will look like.
For most of us, they come looking like a bouquet
of hope, the kind that will make us forget all the pains of the past.
However, the end of an old chapter may have a huge influence on either
our optimism or pessimism towards new beginnings. As we renew our days and dreams, we cannot always wait
for the grand moments to celebrate new beginnings, they are all around
us and that is a good reminder on some of those days that may not be
looking so good.
Every
other day, something anew blossoms; a fresh start of the day, a
journey, a conversation, a friendship and so forth but usually we don't
welcome such like we may a career, a new born baby or her first toddling moments. Periodically, we move into different phases of life with
different expectations and these may determine our experiences. Our
history may project us into the future but I hope that in all our
endeavors we remember to celebrate these moments (baby steps), maybe
that is what life is all about; to live in the moment and to experience
life while at it.
Let the warmth of the fireworks at the beginning of the year illuminate your soul through every passing day. But in all you might and strength, if this fails you, in which case it will, remember these words;
ISAIAH 43:18-19
Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wastelands.
2 CORINTHIANS 4:16-17
Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all.
God continually makes us new. Every moment of every day brings a fresh beginning.
