New Year's Day

Psalm 131

O Lord, my heart is not lifted up,
my eyes are not raised too high;
I do not occupy myself with things
too great and too marvelous for me.
But I have calmed and quieted my soul,
like a weaned child with its mother;
my soul is like the weaned child that is with me.

O Israel, hope in the Lord
from this time on and forevermore.

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All is quiet on New Year's Day

"New Year's Day" by U2 by Bono and U2 from the album "War"

This is a time of year of stillness and quiet, a time of reflection. Some plan New Year's resolutions and how to use new exercise equipment. As for me, in my teens I made that resolution to quit making resolutions and so far so good. Jaded, but it's an easy one to keep and it comes up only once each year.

As I take this moment, as I have calmed and quieted my soul on this New Year's Day, there is only one thing I know with absolute certainty, my hope is in the Lord from this time on and forevermore.

People hope and trust in all manner of things. For some it's money, cash and assets will buy them security. For others the answer is guns, power and might save the day. To some information is power where for others hoarding information is power. For others the only value of information is for the value of sharing it to harm others, whether by malice or snark.

Our hope is in something more, in something different. Our hope is in something greater than what can be created by human hands. Our hope is in the Creator of human hands. Our hope is in the one who created things so great and so marvelous that it is futile to occupy my time with trying to see how great and wonderful they are.

Oh, it doesn't stop people from trying, it sure doesn't stop me. I just have to remember that when I do imagine my thoughts are so far from the truth that it's like a drop in a glorious sea.

So in this time, in this time of stillness and reflection. In the quiet of this New Year's Day, let us remember our hope is in the Lord from this time on and forevermore.