New Year is Coming…

 Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, “Never will I leave you;
    never will I forsake you.”

Hebrews 13:5

Christmas 2025 is over, and we are in the “Twixmas” week. This is a kind of laid-back time for business, a time for kids to wear out their new toys, a time for some families to extend visits, a time to watch some meaningless (but nonetheless fun) college football bowl games, and a time to plan for the New Year.

Pretty soon, we will be back to “normal”, and winter 2026 will descend upon the Northern Hemisphere. People will be making New Year’s resolutions with the best of intentions, and they will feel better for the moment in having made some kind of commitment to positive change. Some actually will keep those resolutions, others, in the words of Ben Franklin, will fall into the old wisdom. “When all is said and done, more is said than done”.

The year 2025 may or may not have worked out as we had hoped. Some people are happy and fulfilled, others are in some level of pain and despair. But here is the truth of the matter. God is good, and he has been good, and he will continue to be good. He will never leave us or forsake us, no matter what kind of problems or issues we may blunder into. Our eyes are on God, not merely our current circumstances.

 That is the good news, my friends!

Prayer: Lord, we give thanks for your blessings in the past year, and pray for guidance in the coming one, Amen.