Isn’t it odd how in the United States we celebrate things in contradictory ways? 

Maybe I’ve just had too much time to think these last couple of weeks, but something seems a little funny to me.  We have a holiday called Memorial Day, designed to honor and remember all those who have died for our freedom and we celebrate it by (for the most part) grilling out and playing outside. 

We have a holiday called Labor Day when just about the entire country takes a day off.

And while New Year’s Day is historically supposed to represent a new start and the freshness of a clean sheet of paper for the next 12 months, most of us are busy sleeping off staying up too late watching what is possibly one of the most anticlimactic celebrations of the year. 

All that being said, January 2 is REALLY New Year’s Day for most of us; the day when we actually start getting things done.  And this morning I woke up to a fresh coat of gleaming white snow on the ground.  It just adds to my feeling of a fresh start and a clean slate to work on my end and pray towards God’s end and see what comes of it.  I’m so excited to see what God does in 2008 and I hope you are too!