Winter Wonders

         The year has ended and a new one is here.  It is a time to recharge, reorganize, start fresh with good habits, getting rid of the old bad ones, seeing things with fresh eyes and mending things and connecting with those who are close to you.  I am trying to avoid the news as it is just saddening to hear of the loss of this year and new covid strains.  Or the really sad stories of loved ones having to say goodbye over a video chat.  Will this new year be a season of change?  Will the flowers and trees begin to bloom after this year long storm?  Or is the plot just going to thicken and the height  of conflict happen this year?  Was 2020 just the first chapter?    As a Christian I try to remind myself, as Matt always reminds me, "we are 'aliens' in this broken world."  We were not intended to be in this world of brokenness.    God I believe did not have the intention of creation falling, that was our fault going back to Genesis  with Adam and Eve.  So with that thought of being an "alien" I try to keep myself grounded in His word.  My motto I keep going  back to from 2020 is "Be in control of what God has given you control over and be a good steward of it.  Anything else is in His control and we need to have faith in that."  This year is new and we can look at it going forward as a blessing or dread tomorrow (which is not something the bible encourages  Matthew 6:34).  Look at each day as a gift, a blessing to have breath in your lungs that God lovingly put there.  Glorify Him with your time although the storm is still raging we serve a God much larger than anything else and has control and we can try to understand that or we can have faith in our Father who has never failed and never will.  Each day is not promised, but given as a gift.  What will you do with yours?