HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
Yippeee… a brand New Year! Did you doubt that you would see the
dawn of 2013 after all the Rula Bula about the Mayan calendar and the Dec 21st
stuff? Did I? Actually I never gave it a
thought! Well, not exactly. Ok, I confess that I did give it a teeny weenie
fleeting deliberation that I should know no fear or pain when the world ended ! That’s it! Period.
Coming back to the New Year, I saw in the New Year at church where
we were given a tiny card each, just before the bells pealed to herald the
arrival of the New Year. On one side of the card, was a ‘Promise to Trust’ while
the other side contained the ‘Command to
Obey’. We were allowed to read the card and be assured of God's promise to trust and His command to obey!
My ‘Promise to Trust’ contained the biblical verse – ‘With
honey from the rock I would satisfy you’ Psalm 81:16
My “Command to Obey’ contained the following
verse from the Bible
–‘For whoever keeps the whole law and yet
stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it’ James 2:10.This
really is a tough one but I will wholeheartedly strive to obey this command.
Then followed the
most touching and heartening of all hymns …
‘Oh God, our help in ages past,
Our hope for years to come,
Our shelter from the stormy blast,
And our eternal home.'
God has been there to see us through the storms of life. For that reason, we can live
with the hope that He will protect us in the present and and in the years to come as well ! No matter what
"stormy blast" may be swirling around us, we should hold on to the promise of
this hymn!
Back home , we had THE yummiest and THE scrumptious-est
New Year treat made by my sister, Shaila -
Plum and Strawberry Galette! Yum Yum!
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| Plum and strawberry Galette |
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| A slice on my plate with fresh cream |
Here’s wishing you all a year full of happy days, beautiful
moments, good health , peace ,prosperity and showers of blessings from above!
‘Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it
right!’
:)
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