Vote YES to keep future New Years Day

Funny how 1 new day seems to be more powerful than every other new day. Imagine if the world didn't measure time in years, just days... yep that freaks me out! The Bible and any other history books would be full of many more numbers - some taking up more than 1 line probably. That would take some fun out of being an archeologist or historian. No-one would want to be the one reading the Bible up front at church when the passage for the day is Genesis chapter 5! Not to mention how some of those people in that passage would have felt about telling people their age... take Methuselah for example, he was 353,927 days old when he died. Should I be worried that I did the math on that? By the way, if you did the math too and it doesn't look like mine, I took account of leap years - yep I should probably be worried - but I'm not:) There is something more troubling about not having years... there couldn't be months and you know what happens when there is no month or year - there are no anniversaries... I'm talking NO birthdays, no reoccurring celebrations we can look forward to - that is depressing. Although, we could swing it so everyday was our birthday - life would just be full of parties then. There are some weeks and months that feel like they drag on already, having no year would make life feel like it's dragging along. I don't think we could handle it...

So Right about now I am feeling very thankful for New Years Day! How about you? I appreciate that God has structured into our lives beginnings and ends and new beginnings and anniversaries - times to look forward, times for reflecting, times for remembering, times for re-evaluating, and times to celebrate. There is a lot of wisdom and grace right there:) Though every day is really a new beginning for us and a sign of grace to us from God, there is something pretty great about New Years eve and New Years Day that is different from every other day - besides the parties and the public holidays. Here's to the Grace of God and a clean slate for the year. I'm pumped for it! :)