Dear God, Thank You for new beginnings. This is an incredible day, with a fresh year’s potential stretched out before me. I want to be faithful this year in every opportunity You bring to me. Thank You, Lord, for new beginnings. I pray this in Jesus’ name. Amen. – Pastor David McGee
Thanks for being part of my blogging life. You are valued more than you know! A most happy, blessed 2023 to you.
I venture to say that very few have looked forward to a new year quite as much as everyone has looked forward to this one. Thanks for taking this journey with me and welcome to the next stage.
“Hope
Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,
Whispering ‘it will be happier’…”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson
“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language
And next year’s words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.” ~T.S Eliot, Little Gidding
“Any new beginning is forged from the shards of the past, not from the abandonment of the past.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Each New Year, we have before us a brand new book containing 365 blank pages. Let us fill them with all the forgotten things from last year—the words we forgot to say, the love we forgot to show, and the charity we forgot to offer.”
― Peggy Toney Horton
“The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes.”
― G.K. Chesterton, A Chesterton calendar
Celebrating the new year with my husband, foie gras, and a bottle of glorious champagne that was a gift of love. What a wonderful way to start the new year!
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
~Rainer Maria Rilke
Not much going on in our neck of the woods except for snow falling gently throughout the entire day and into the dark of the afternoon. We got in early this morning from a small, enjoyable New Years Eve party and are both a bit sleepy. Watching some football, doing a few things around the house, Bill shoveled, snow, then took a bike ride in the 6″+ of snow. He’s recovering by taking a nap. 🙂 Good New Years Day stuff. I’m catching up a bit on posts, email and Facebook and haven’t been out of the house all day. All we lack is a fire in the fireplace. Nice to just relax. Bill put several small bottle of champers out in the snow to cool and we’re ready for a lovely evening. Here are a few pictures from the confines of the house.
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