“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” Jeremiah 29:11Resolved... (1) Let go of the Past; (2) Embrace God in the Present; (3) Bring Change to the Future. “The Beginning is the most important part…For that is the time character is being formed.” Plato “The Object of a New Year is not that we should have a New Year. It is that we should have a new Soul.” GK Chesterton "Maybe this year we will walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but potential.” Ellen Goodman “Decide that you are not going to stay where you are.” JP Morgan "You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. "Stay away from what might have been, and look at what can be.” Marsha Sue "Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was." Robert Louis Stevenson "Be Always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each New Year find you a better man.” Benjamin Franklin “Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; suddenly you are doing the impossible.” St. Francis of Assisi "If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; all things have become new.” 2 Corinthians 5:17 So begins the quest for Home...
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Just as I looked forward to reading each of your 21 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS, I look forward to your accounts of your sojourn on Earth as you do as C. S. Lewis suggests that you and we must do as you and we “begin [and continue] the quest for Home” — “I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death; I must never let it get snowed under or turned aside; I must make it the main object of life to press on to that other country and to help others to do the same.” [“Mere Christianity”]