A new year equals new possibilities

A new year.
A new decade.
A new start.
Resolutions.
Lists.
Changes.
Improvements.

It's kind of funny actually because it is really just a day like any other days... the sun comes up and the sun goes down. January 1. 2011. It is just a date; a number.  But we put a lot of importance on that. It feels fresh and clean and almost like a do-over. I woke up today and it felt different. It is January and January always feels like a new start. I wanted this day to matter. "What was I going to do on this first day of this new year and this new decade?" I was thinking. I wanted to start with a clean house, a clean heart, a clean 'inside my head'.

My daughter's new beginning last year!

The checker at the market last night said he doesn't think anything of it. It is not a big deal to him because one day is like the next. But I don't think so. I think that it is an opportunity. Pamela from Magical Meadows started last year marking the first day of each month with a "New Month's Resolution" - and what she is really saying is that each month is a new beginning. I like that.

© Prizler Photography

Last year, I read the Bible in a year. A passage designated for each day of the year, in succession, so that on the last day of the year you are reading the last words of the Bible. Today I started over again. And the first words I read were, "In the beginning God..." Genesis 1:1. and that is what today feels like to me. A beginning.