A New Beginning

                                                                                                   

What are your thoughts as the New Year approaches? When you think of “new” what images comes to mind?

 Here is what comes to my mind- different, firsthand, fresh, original and innovative. As you approach 2014, think of how you can make it different from 2013.  How can it be innovative, original or fresh?

Here are a few thoughts: Let us embrace 2014 as an opportunity for not only a fresh start, but a fresh start on a new page. However in order for us to take advantage of this opportunity, we will need to let go of some old ways of thinking, old habits, negative ways of speaking and believe it or not some "old" friends and companions.

Let me remind you of a popular scripture verse we often quote: Isaiah 43:19 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 wasteland.

 Reading this verse brings me to another thing we need to leave behind in 2013 our "old perception" and see things in an entirely different way.

So instead of seeing obstacles in 2014 see stepping stones.  When challenges come our way in 2014 thing of how much they will build your endurance and make you more resilient. Perceive God as your source and not your resource; see Him as having all the answers to your questions and not just a mere onlooker. 

   

In His Service,

Vilma