Happy New Year!

 

We were reminiscing about Christmas presents the other day. One of my favorite childhood toys was the Etch A Sketch. For those of you who haven’t played with one, it looks something like an old TV screen in a plastic box with two dials at the bottom. When you turn the dials, it draws a line on the screen. When you have finished whatever you are doing and want to draw something new, you just shake the screen and it erases your drawing and you are ready to start over.

 

As we start the new year, we can close the books on the old year and start fresh. Many of us make resolutions for the new year to try to do better in some area(s) of our life that we are not satisfied with. If you are wanting to start over, take a minute to visualize the Etch A Sketch drawing of your past, give it a good shake, and begin to write the next chapter of your life.

 

Oswald Chambers wrote, “Our yesterdays hold broken and irreversible things for us. It is true that we have lost opportunities that will never return, but God can transform this destructive anxiety into a constructive thoughtfulness for the future. Let the past rest, but let it rest in the sweet embrace of Christ. Leave the broken, irreversible past in His hands, and step out into the invincible future with Him.”

 

Whatever has gone before, God always stands ready to lead you into your best life from this day forward. His infinite love demands no less than that.

 

May you have a happy and blessed new year!

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