10 Ways to Approach a New Year

#1: As a Beginning

We are aware that all things have a birth. Even inanimate objects like rocks, stars and galaxies have primordial beginning and continue their emergence, their becoming. A new year is a human attempt to begin afresh, a tabula-rasa of possibilities, an unpainted canvas, an unwritten book, a song unsung. The Lord God speaking through the prophet Isaiah once declared, "Behold, I am doing a new thing."

It is refreshing to know that God is as tired of the old as we are. God is still in the business of spraying new car smell into old jalopies.

2011 now offers us a Bada-bing-bada-boom of possibilities, it is the mother-of-all years, the Big Kahuna of open doors. We are growing old, but we still want to begin again. We can become diamonds. Time and pressure are the key ingredients. Precious stuff, this beginning.