New Beginnings

All of the Staff and Officers of Central Presbyterian Church wish for you a joyful and health-filled New Year.

This time of the year offers all of us an opportunity to explore new beginnings. It is a good time to take stock of our lives and decide certain paths we might want to explore. So many of us will set some New Year Resolutions and then feel guilty that we have not been very resolved in keeping them.

I am proposing that we all do something a little different this year. Let me suggest that we resolve to not make any New Year’s resolutions. The problem, you see, with making resolutions is that whatever we feel we need to change about ourselves, our lifestyles, our spiritual growth, our body weight……we think that such a change is dependent solely on our own will power. That, I have found, is a road map for failure.

You see, I believed God has created us to be interdependent one with another and dependent of the grace, mercy, and power of the Holy Spirit. Thus community and connection to the will of God and the power of the Spirit of God is our recipe for new beginnings. We often have this goal that is set “out there.” The problem is that we are too focused beyond the very moment God has given to us….and so our moments often do not add up to the goal we have set.

So, I suggest that we relax and spend more of our time listening and learning where God wants us to go and grow. Listen up…Loosen up….and Live it up in this Glorious New Year God has granted us!

Love forever and then some,
Greg