I've been thinking about transitions. We don't think much about the more mundane ones-like halftime in football, lunch time at work, period break at a hockey game (I used to ref hockey 'cuz I got more ice time that way . . . ), or even a simple thing like a semi-colon; we pay more attention to the more significant transitions like graduations, weddings, birthdays and the like.
Transitions all have two things in common; they mark an end to one thing and start another. The old gets put behind and the new becomes the now!
NEW YEARS DAY 2022 is like that. What does it mean to you? How will you use or misuse those 365 global rotations? How different will it be than 2021? You will live this coming year somewhere on the volatile continuum between Chance and Choice. Chance because you really don't know what 2022 will bring. Choice because, within the parameters of our life situations, we'll make choices on what we do and how we do it.
The most critical and crucial choices we make will be those that impact our spiritual walk and calling. The Apostle Paul talked about the way he viewed his spiritual calling in Philippians 3:13–14: "I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus."
The choice we have is whether we just let life happen to us, or we choose the way life will go. The year 2021 may have been awesome for you-or not. It may have been a total wash for you-or not. Either way, all our blunders, accomplishments, advances and victories are now yesterday's news.
There's a blank slate of life in front of us. We choose, to a great extent, how the narrative will read.
