Photo by Jean Wimmerlin
The New Year Approaches
The new year approaches like a lion
about to pounce on its prey!
The current year, once fat with trajectories, triumphs,
trials, and tragedies, has now been consumed.
All that is left is the skeleton,
picked clean by the carnivores of coincidence,
chaos, time, and trying.
That casualty is perhaps both
lovingly and disdainfully remembered,
as the strong, wild animal, she once was.
It was a year filled with opportunities and obstacles,
wounds inflicted, victories fought for, prayed for,
and some mercies granted.
A year of choosing faith,
at times strong,
at times a whisper.
Only one constant.
The Lord is always with me. ¹
“Jesus Christ is the same
yesterday and today
and forever.” ²
Thankfully, “forever”
includes the coming new year.
Matthew 28:20
Hebrews 13:8
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