FINALLY!

Celebrating the arrival of a new year is an annual custom all around the world, but I don't think anyone has looked forward to a New Year's Day more than this year.  I won't go in to all the negative details of 2020.  We are quite familiar with the year just ended.  I'd like to say some encouraging things though about this new year.

First of all, today is a holiday.  It's also still part of the Christmas season.  (It's the eighth day of Christmas).  Let us be joyful.  Let us celebrate.  Let us do something positive and fun.  Today we begin a brand new year.  We can make it better than last year.  It really is in our hands.  We need to listen to reason though.  We need to care about others.  We need to work as a team and do things that will make a positive difference.

Now, I'm not saying all the bad of 2020 was our fault and that it all could have been avoided, but it seems to me that a lot of folks spent too much time thinking about themselves and not enough about others.  Let's turn that around.  Let's put others first.  You'll be amazed at what a difference that will make.  We need to get rid of the hate.  Let's make 2021 the year of love.  Let's make this the year of new beginnings.