2022: It's about time!

​"I'VE REACHED A POINT IN MY LIFE THIS PAST YEAR WHERE I REALIZED JUST HOW VITAL THE IDEA AND ESSENCE OF TIME IS; WHO AND WHAT GETS MY TIME THESE DAYS. WE DON'T GET TIME BACK, SO IN 2022 AND BEYOND, THE PEOPLE, THE PROJECTS, THE ENERGY, THE EVERYTHING. LIFE. IF IT GETS MY TIME AND GETS ME OUT OF BED, THEN I'LL GO TO SLEEP KNOWING IT WAS WORTH IT AND IT WAS ALL TIME WISELY SPENT. TIME IS OUR GREATEST AND MOST VALUABLE CURRENCY."
 
DWAYNE "THE ROCK" JOHNSON

In the deep midwinter on this first day of January 2022 as the new year begins, we think the world is unchanged. It is cold, gray, dark and still with long months of shortened days still to come.

Yet, the world is new. We look around the garden and witness a slow resurrection, not just the turn of a calendar page, but the stir of seeds sheltered deep in the earth just waiting for the warmth of spring to climb toward the coming light.

As the author of Hebrews 11 writes, we move forward with the faith of being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.
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Today we begin a new year in the cold, deep darkness. Out of this darkness we, too, reach toward the coming light with the faith that the light still shines and better days are to come.  Happy New Year!

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