We made it to see 2024!!!
It is indeed a blessing to see the year on the calendar change.
Did you follow some of the old-fashioned traditions on January 1st: black-eye peas, man should enter your house first, no washing, etc.?
No, to the black-eye peas for me; I had purple-hull peas instead. What does a new year on the calendar mean to you? For some of us, a new year signifies change; resolutions (a firm decision to do or not to do something) are made.
With resolutions, we vow to change that one thing that held us back in 2023…you know, that relationship, bad habit, giving up easily, or whatever it may have been. For others, January 1st is just another day; we go about our lives as if nothing has changed.
Either way, the first day of a new year is another day that we can do something different, be a better version of ourselves.
If there is something we didn’t do or quite get right yesterday or even yesteryear, every day that we open our eyes is a chance to do right, to improve ourselves, to be better than we were the day before. A new year on the calendar does not guarantee the change we want or need to see, especially when a new year is not promised to us.
A made-up mind and a convicted heart are what ensure that needed or wanted change, and change can happen at any time of the year, not just January 1.
