Sunday, January 07, 2018
Sunday Reflection: A New Year!
I know, I know... it is a bit past New Year's Day. Still, this is the first Sunday of the New Year after that one, and I think it is not too late to mull over what it means.
There isn't anything magical about the year changing, any more than it is meaningful that the odometer flips over 100,000 on your car (which actually happened to me this year for the first time, and all 100,000 were mine!).
Except... isn't it a little magical when the odometer flips over? All those zeroes in a row?
There is a definitive statement in these things, really. Time passes. And, in your car, space passes, places passing by one after the other; some you notice and others you don't. And yet, there is something ahead, unknown, exciting, just as real as that which has past.
If this all has a design, than certainly this is an elemental part of it, a bit of deep truth that can be hard to look at too closely...
There isn't anything magical about the year changing, any more than it is meaningful that the odometer flips over 100,000 on your car (which actually happened to me this year for the first time, and all 100,000 were mine!).
Except... isn't it a little magical when the odometer flips over? All those zeroes in a row?
There is a definitive statement in these things, really. Time passes. And, in your car, space passes, places passing by one after the other; some you notice and others you don't. And yet, there is something ahead, unknown, exciting, just as real as that which has past.
If this all has a design, than certainly this is an elemental part of it, a bit of deep truth that can be hard to look at too closely...
