Congratulations! We’ve made it to another year – 2025 is officially here. Each of our hourglasses are full, but even now the time is sifting through.

We each have a choice as to how we will use the time given to us in this new year. Will we be energetic or lazy, achieving or lackadaisical, helpful or self-serving?

One of my perpetual calendars has this encouragement for January 1st: “I asked the man at the gate of the year, ‘Give me a light that I may go forth into the unknown.’ And the man replied, ‘Put your hand into the hand of God. That shall be to you better than a light, safer than a known way.'” (Taken from a New Year’s message of Great Britain’s King George at the beginning of WWII. Credit to Heartland Samplers, Inc.)

I can’t improve on the king’s advice. Everyday is a new opportunity to do the right thing, make a difference, or just make it through a challenging experience. With God’s help and leading, we will take the right steps and make the better decisions. I wish you a blessed year, day by day and month by month.

Sue