New Year's Eve

On the cusp of a new year we find ourselves in a threshold moment. Our minds drift back with hindsight to trips taken, experiences and encounters that filled the days of 2018, and even moments when we sensed a trace of God's grace. What moments this last year still cause a smile to cross your face? What hurts still linger and last, sitting restless in your soul? What insights or ideas were awoken in the last 365 days? Yet, this day isn't only about looking back. We look around at our lives today. If you were to take a piece of paper right now and write, "The Good; The Bad; and The Ugly" what are some of the things in your life right now would you categorize and classify in each? Or are some things on the line. Or are some things unable, unwilling to fit neat and tidy in those boxes? Play around at bit with this. Or, if you don't like that, my spiritual director always asks, "How is it with your soul?" That is a good question everyday and