Welcome 2008 Time to start afresh!
I do love New Year, even though we have a God who allows and encourages us to let go of the past; all of our mistakes and failures, muddles and mixed priorities and start again, as often as we need to, still, I find it helps to have a symbolic moment in which to look back at the past and forward to the future. New Year for me is one of those, so is Easter and perhaps not suprising for a Methodist the Ist of September the beginning of the connexional new year.
Time to look back and forward to how 'Breakfast on the Beach' has gone and might continue (we had a quiet one on December 23rd) with my support group with the leadership team of the local free church and with the ministers in the local area. Time to find more ways to listen to the two local communities I am most involved in. Time to reconsider how to encourage experimentation across the circuit given the light of last years experience.
On the one hand there seems oodles of time, and on the other a sense of real urgency that if we are not prepared and focused we might miss the moment, if our eyes and ears are not open for the movement of the Spirit, that the time for change is upon us and we must not miss it.
The New Year to me seems always poised between the now and the not yet, full of potential.
May there be this year time for every matter under heaven, but especially:
a time to break down and a time to build up;
a time to weep and a time to laugh;
a time to mourn and a time to dance,
As some will know that I love to dance but I also love to have a reason to dance, may this be just one of those years.
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