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A New Year Awaits

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In: Life, Uncategorized on: January 2, 2010

Sometimes I think New Year’s Day is my favorite holiday. I guess maybe that’s secretly true for all of us list-making, record-keeping types. I love the totaling out of my writing work for the year, and the blank spreadsheet set up for the coming one. I love slim, empty file folders, waiting to become the bulging ones of December. Everything is fresh and new, full of promise and possibility.
Maybe that’s why I never get into a spring-cleaning frenzy. That itch tends to arrive for me in January, too. Wanting to rid my house of the useless or worn out. Seeking order in closets and cabinets. I don’t always get to these tasks in January, but the impetus begins then.
The New Year also brings the anticipation of return to schedule and routine from the freewheeling holidays, and a time to reevaluate the structure of my days. And while I am ordering the my exterior world, I can also look ahead to new vistas in my relationship with the Lord, especially as each day brings us closer to a new season in our lives. Just 3 ½ years left of children in the house on a daily basis. And I know how fast those years will pass by.
So I welcome 2010, with its fresh, innocent face, as I clear out the old and arrange the new, as I prepare to meet each new day with its joys and challenges. And though only the Lord knows what the days of 2010 will bring, I love that I can be sure of this one thing: Jesus will hold me through them all.

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  1. Niki Turner

    January 2, 2010 at 7:16 pm

    Ah, another kindred spirit! Happy cleaning and clearing and cleansing. Time to tackle that scary closet in the kitchen today.

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  2. nana

    January 3, 2010 at 1:18 pm

    You come by this honestly–you just described your mother! I love you, and let's get at it!!

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  4. Anita

    January 6, 2010 at 6:29 am

    Happy New Year, D'Ann. I always have such lofty plans to clean closets and such but I'd really rather be writing and that's usually what I end up doing instead. Shhh.

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