The New Year is more than just a marking of time—or at least it can be. Many people see it as an opportunity to make a new start in some area of their lives. Perhaps it’s our new calendars with their fresh images or our new diaries and weekly planners…
In most countries the new year is celebrated on the first day of January, but in Cambodia, my home for three years, we got to celebrate New Year three times every 365 days. First comes the international New Year on January 1, best known for late-night parties and morning-after hangovers.…
When the thought first crossed my mind that I should make a New Year’s resolution to keep a daily journal, I immediately dismissed it. Too many past resolutions had fallen by the wayside, and I could foresee ending the year with a journal full of empty pages. I also didn’t…
As we stand before the New Year, we don’t know what’s in store for us. But there’s one thing we do know, and that is that we can leave the past, with all of its cares, pains, heartaches, and mistakes, behind. We can’t undo one single act or unsay one…
The page was blank, its edges wide, A sea of white before my eyes. Unmarked, unspoiled, or so the year Held in my Savior’s hands appeared. I gripped a pen tightly in hand While questions as unnumbered sand Swept through my mind until my eyes