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Welcome 2025

In Japan it is a 16th century tradition called “Forgetting the Year” party, in which people gather on New Years Eve and burn their old calendars in a way of moving on to the new year.  An old Irish tradition is to open the front door of your house at midnight, in order to let the old year out and begin the new.  It makes me wonder if we shoot fireworks, not only to make noise but to blow away the old year so the new year can arrive.  I confess I’ve had a few years when I needed to burn more than a calendar, open more than the front door and shoot more firecrackers.  But the best thing about January 1 is that a new year begins.  It is a reminder that God is “the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End (Revelation 1:8).  It is He who was, and is, and is to come. So welcome, 2025.  We’ve been waiting for your arrival. Your promise of freshness and newness is like a clean slate, a chance to begin again.  Here are a few good quotes for the New Year:

  • “The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes.” K. Chesterton
  • “Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.” Mark Twain
  • “An optimist stays up until midnight to see the New Year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.” — Bill Vaughn

 

 

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