“Hello, New Year. I’m pleased to make your acquaintance, another child of time. I’ve met forty-two of your siblings and have learned much through the years. I shall make my vow to you now, since it is early in our season together.
“Foremost, I will be deeply obliged and grateful to the One who created both of us. It is to Him this vow is ultimately professed. I know not what price the days before me will afford, so I promise not to hold the hands of time so tightly that I grieve the present with my absence as I try clinging to past memories. Likewise, I will not vex my conscience with vague and uncertain curiosities forthcoming. Rather, I will endeavor to remain in the moment and wholeheartedly embrace every second before bidding each farewell. May I strive to attend the “now” every moment in every day we have together, for there is no part of you that I wish to discount. Our Creator may hand you, New Year, pain to pass along in order to impart wisdom, or perhaps, He will bring delight through disappointment. On the other hand, perchance, He would teach a difficult and beautiful lesson through the joy of the unforeseen. I do not know, nor do I wish to know.
“Let us be friends, New Year. I’ll call you “2015” for this year. May Time and Grace hold us together as we grow, and may the dawn of each day be the place you and I meet with our Creator to daily calibrate my soul for His plans for us as we walk together.”
Mosaic Life 