Every Day Is New Year's Day

 

Here we are, the day after Christmas, and our thoughts immediately turn to the new year.

Will the next year bring fortune or failure? What can I do to be a better person or make a better living? What resolutions should I make and how can I keep them?

This next year is a blank sheet of paper, waiting to be written on; a clean slate; a fresh start. I need to take full advantage of this opportunity!

Wow.

That's a lot of pressure to put on something as arbitrary as the beginning of a new year.

Yes, you heard me...arbitrary.

The only reason January is "the first month of the year" is because the Roman king Numa Pompilius said so. It used to be March (which makes more sense of the names of OCTober and DECember as the 8th and 10th months). England and her North American colonies didn't observe January as the first month until 1752. Before then, they celebrated New Year's Day on March 25th.

Besides, according to Carolyn Arends, EVERY day is New Year's Day:

I buy a lot of diaries, fill them full of good intentions

Each and every New Year's Eve, I make myself a list

All the things I'm gonna change, until January Second

So this time I'm making one promise

This will be my resolution: Every day is New Year's Day

This will be my resolution: Every day is New Year's Day.

Well I believe it's possible, I believe in new beginnings

I believe in Christmas Day, and Easter Morning, too

And I'm convinced it's doable, cuz I believe in second chances

Just the way that I believe in you

This will be my resolution: Every day is New Year's Day

This could start a revolution

Every day is one more chance to start all over

One more chance to change and grow

One more chance to grab a hold of grace and never let it go

This will be my resolution: Every day is New Year's Day

This could start a revolution: Every day is New Year's Day

©1997 Running Arends Music

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Truth is...I can find a fresh start every day because of the truth of 2nd Corinthians 5:17  -  Therefore, if anyone is in Christ [that is, grafted in, joined to Him by faith in Him as Savior], he is a new creature [reborn and renewed by the Holy Spirit]; the old things [the previous moral and spiritual condition] have passed away. Behold, new things have come [because spiritual awakening brings a new life]. (AMP)