There are fewer than two hours left of 2014.
People all over the world have celebrated, are celebrating or will soon be celebrating the new year.
Except that nothing at all is new. Sure, the calendar flips, but the only thing that changes is the numbers on the paper. We are all the same. At least the same as we were a week, a month or a quarter ago. Our bank balance is the same. Our house is the same. Same car in the driveway.
What is it that we celebrate then?
I have pondered the long lives of early humans like Adam, Noah and Methuselah. I wondered how they could live such long lives without losing their minds. I mean, how exactly do you spend nine hundred years on this planet?
I believe I know how. They approached life one year at a time. Just like we do.
A new year represents hope. It’s a reset button for life. The new date on the calendar represents a fresh start. No matter what happened, no matter what we faced, no matter our failures, we look at it as a new beginning.
Praying that you take your new year as that new opportunity to do and become all that you dream of.
Joel Stiff's Adventure 