On the calendar Christmas and New Year come only once in a year,
and they provide us with a wonderful opportunity to reflect on the birth
of the Lord into the world and into our lives, and then to make anew the
resolutions to follow Him with hope for the future. But in our spiritual
life we do not have to wait for the calendar dates of Christmas and New
Year. We can, at any time, grant the Lord access to our lives and allow
Him to inspire us to change, and draw from Him the power to enact that
change. In this way, every day is Christmas and every day is New Year.
May your New Year be filled with the blessing of the Lord’s presence!
Amen.
The Rev. Dr. Andrew M. T. Dibb is Dean of the Bryn Athyn College
Theological School. He was ordained in 1984 and into the second
degree in 1986. He has served as assistant to the pastor of the
Carmel New Church in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, as pastor of the
Transvaal Society and the New Church Buccleuch in his native South
Africa, and as Dean of the South African Theological School. He
and his wife, Cara (Glenn), live in Abington, Pennsylvania. Contact:
[email protected]
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