A New Year’s Eve of good friends, ice cream sundaes, and a Sponge Bob pinata. What better way than to ring in 2010? (Or the Fake New Year? It was actually 9, but the kids are young and we were tired.)
As I do my typical New Year’s Naval-Gazing, an especially poignant process, given we lost two loved ones recently, I am contemplative this morning. I am reflecting on what was good in the year ‘09. What relationships and experiences were especially life-giving? What relationships and experiences is God calling me to invest in in 2010? Hmmm......some interesting thoughts. I believe it's going to be a year of changes and new beginnings for me. More on that later.:)
I’ll leave you with a prayer.
God of the seasons, Lover of the ages,
Master of every moment:
You who are beyond time yet within all time.
We return to you what you have given to us —
the moments, the minutes, the hours, the days,
the weeks, the months, and the year of 2009.
Time has been gracious to us again,
and we thank you for freely giving us these human bodies,
these events, and these relationships.
We have lived another year and we have died another year,
and now you are granting us the beginnings of another.
We now hand over to you the blessed year, 2009,
with all that it gave us and all that it took from us,
knowing that both are necessary, just like our breath.
We trust you in both the givings and the takings,
the inhalings and the exhalings.
May every breath of 2010 be a breath of the Holy Spirit,
joyfully received and joyfully returned,
beginning with this one right now. (Richard Rohr)
Happy New Year, Friends!
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