NEW YEAR
by RevJess Hunt

We have just completed another year; a span of 365 days. Every one of us had a birthday, we are one year older.

This would be a good time to hide behind a tree and watch ourselves go by. Did you accomplish your goal for 1996? Are you better off now than a year ago? Physically, financially, mentally?

Would you like to relive 1996? Would you make any changes? What was your great accomplishment? What was your greatest mistake? Will you make some of the same mistakes this new year? Or do you learn from your mistakes and experiences? As we go into 1997 we have 365 days to account for (trusting you go all the way). But there are two days we should not worry about:

The first one is Yesterday, as we look back on 1996, it is gone, past, can't bring it back, gone forever, what did you do with it? Do you have any regrets of its passing?

The other day is Tomorrow, with its possibilities, worries, and burdens. Tomorrow is beyond our control. But what do you really expect to happen in 1997? Tomorrow's sun will no doubt rise, maybe behind a cloud or hidden from our view by a dense fog, but there isn't anything we can do about that, so why worry.

So that leaves us with Today. What are we doing with Today? Surely we can cope with the problems and burdens or blessings for one day at a time. It is only when we add the problems, trials, sufferings, disappointments and failure of Yesterday to the worries of Tomorrow that we break down under the load; especially the worries of cancer. So don't add the worries of Tomorrow and the mistakes of Yesterday to the problems of Today.

This would be a good time to make a New Years Resolution that we are going to be happy, pleasant, cheerful and kind to others; regardless of our past experiences. Don't let the grief of Yesterday, and the fear of Tomorrow deprive you of the pleasure of Today. For Today is the day we looked forward to Yesterday with greater hope than Yesterday offered us. What are you doing with Today? Are you using it wisely?

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