The clock ticks toward midnight, just like it does 364 other days each year, but on this particular night, we watch it with bated breath, we count the seconds, we cheer loud and long when the clock strikes 12, but why?
New Year's Day opens a clean slate, the old year is over, the new year is just beginning. All the mistakes and disappointments and discouragements of last year are done, gone, wiped out with a stoke of the clock. The page is blank ready for us to write on. We all make resolutions that this year will be different, it will be better, but for better or for worse, it is a New Year and I wish you Joy, Peace and Love in it.
This year, 2001, I actually did make some New Year's Resolutions!
Read the Bible through This year
Morning Devotions - Daily
Return to my writing
Submit at least 2 articles a month
Find a Church and attend weekly
Not anything earthshattering, but it is a start!
I found Baby New Year at the Site Fights!!
I adopted Anne as my New Year's Angel on December 26, 1999
Milton is my New Year's Dragon, adopted from DarksBane Dragons at the Site Fights!!
Please meet Felicity, My New Year's Fairy adopted from Enchanted Hollow!
Millicent was adopted from SherBear's Limited Adoptions
And when eight days were completed for the circumcision of the Child, His name was called jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.
Luke 2: 21
The celebration of New Year's Day is not complete without the celebration of the naming of the Christ Child born on Christmas Day. When he was 8 days old, he was taken to to temple in Jerusalem and there he was circumcised according to the Laws of Judiasm and given the name of Jesus. The name the angel had given to Joseph. Jesus means Savior, for He would save his people, all of his people, from their sins.