On January 1st one comic strip character said to his buddy, “What’s so special about the New Year? It looks just like yesterday!” Maybe he was correct, but there is an outside chance that he was mistaken … the choice is left up to each of us about just how “special” the new year really will be.
A gentle rain greeted us yesterday morning causing an old gospel hymn to be remembered: “’There shall be showers of blessing:’ This is the promise of love; There shall be season refreshing, Sent from the Savior above. Showers of blessing, Showers of blessing we need: Mercy-drops round us are falling, But for the showers we plead.”
As the glitz and glamour of the Christmas decorations are being packed away a thought did occur. Will all the old baggage of 2009 be drugged into 2010 or will the “shower” of a new day, a new year be a blessing by washing away the dirt and dust of thoughts, feelings and actions previously held? Or, will we simply pack it all up to be re-opened later?
A metaphor can be found in the 1986 movie, “The Mission,” staring Jeremy Irons and Robert DeNiro. Mendoza (DeNiro) was a trader in slaves, but is converted to Christianity by the Jesuits. Now a believer he joins the mission to the natives who he once captured and sold into slavery, but they have to climb a mountain to reach the work of the missionaries. Mendoza is struggling to climb the mountain, but as a part of his pentience, for his preivous sins, he has to drag a rather large bundle which contains all of his “important” stuff from his previous life. It increasingly becomes heavier and more bothersome and nearly pulls him off the mountain to a certain death, but a priest cuts it loose saving his life and freeing him from his past. Mendoza is finally truly free.
“What’s so special about the New Year?” It remains to be seen! It really is our decision isn't it!
Quote for today: "It's never too late to become what you were meant to be." from Holy Mole by Rick Hotton
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