2010...A NEW YEAR?

13 January 2010 – bright and sunny - young, like the New Year.

Except the year is not really new, is it?
It really is just the next one, the one that has grown out of the old one.

Problems and successes and situations continue- at least, their aftermaths continue.
If the aftermaths and continuations are positive and constructive, well and good, as Gramma used to say. Thank the Good Lord.
If they are not good, not so well and good. Pray a lot and deal with them, as intelligent people said and do say.

The point is that we do, if we are so blessed, have a new chance to have a go, as the Brits like to say, but the Dear Old World does go on.

And it is the same old world – just a calendar cycle away from what was.
A new number designation – 2010 instead of 2009 – and a new month name – January instead of December.
But the one flows out of the other.

It is good to remember this, for one of the primary lessons of life, one of the most important, is that for every action, there is an opposite and equal reaction.
In short, there are consequences.

What we have done matters. What we do and will do matter as well – indeed, what we are doing now is the most important – but what has preceded is soooooo important as well.

And so we face 2010 – with hope and confidence as well as with our panoply of concerns and worries.

I use the word panoply advisedly inasmuch as said concerns and worries can bring out the best in us – so we are told.

So, with all of the above in mind, we at The Study wish health and success and joy and justice for all.
We pray for confusion to the enemy and for victory for the Good Guys.

We hope and pray that we can be among the Good Guys – that we will have the wherewithal and strength and health to do that which ought to be done.

Take very good care and do what you have to do.