Forget About the New Year – That’s Not the Main Story for 2016
Posted on Wednesday, December 30th, 2015 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: Blessed Assurance, Cece Winan, Cecily Tyson, Fanny Crosby, First Baptist Church of Hope Valley, Happy New Year, hymn sing, imperfect new year, is God a perfectionist, old hymns, overcoming perfectionism, overcoming rejections, perfectionism, reclamation, redemption, restoration, The Kennedy Center Honors, the work of redemption
Too often we are solely fascinated by the new . . . new year, new leaf, new resolution. Our inner perfectionist loves the unmarked journal, the unblemished calendar, the pristine white of the first snow. We’re drawn to the new because, much as a recent amputee senses a phantom limb, we imagine that through the …[ read more ]