For Me; For You

 “A New Year is just beginning. 

New deserves respect.

Let fresh thinking shape decisions,

Push back negative conclusions.

Don’t let dark thoughts shade the light

Of what is new, bright,

And, perhaps strange for you.

Encourage a truly New Year.”

                                                          −  M. L. Stith

                                       Wisdom from a learned source:

“Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore, we must be saved by hope.

  Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore, we must be saved by faith,

  Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love.

  No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as from our own; therefore, we are saved by the final form of love which is forgiveness."                                                                      

                                                                    − Reinhold Niebuhr

Happy New Year.