Ornaments are packed and stored away for next year. The Christmas cd’s are placed back in their cases. Those cute hand towels dotted with snowmen are folded and placed in the back of the linen closet. Christmas is past and a new year has begun.

I love new things. I always loved getting a new pencil box before a new school year started. I also love the feel of a new book, whose cover has never been opened. There’s something about the newness of something brand new that holds anticipation for all the possibility it holds. The pencil box with newly sharpened pencils holds great possibility for all that’s to be learned. A new book promises a new adventure either in learning or with new characters.

With a new year upon us, there can be great expectation and possibility there too. A new year brings with it an opportunity to start over, to make changes and begin afresh. What does this new year have in store for you? Perhaps new goals? Hope for change? Adventures to anticipate?

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