Thank goodness that 2014 is coming to an end.  It's been the longest year ever around here.  There will be no list of crises we faced during the past twelve months.  Room doesn't remain here for that exercise.  Let's just leave it at few people are happier to start a new year than yours truly. Now we turn the calendar to a new year.  Just remember that you also change not just the year but each day.  We may have 2015 waiting on us but we go through it one day at a time.  I saw where someone wrote we have a blank book with 365 pages waiting to be written.  You can make decisions each day to fill it with stuff or with the awesome.  Far too many settle for stuff without making room for the awesome.

No one can predict what the year holds in any area of life.  You may read or watch lots of the experts suggest their ideas but no one on the planet knows the outcome.  I may hope to avoid any new ailments or any serious crisis but there are no promises.  Do we really want to focus on what may or may not happen or just move confidently in God's basic purposes?  One path leads to anxiety while the other does bring into existence a path to God's best.  My desire is to keep an eye each day on the basics to keep a firm foundation for the future.

There was one odd thought that crossed my mind while locked away in a hospital room for three weeks.  You may not understand but it's one that only a person who deals with life and death far too often.  I go through weeks of poison and pain for what reason.  Some do this with the idea that succeeding will promise life with comfort and ease.  I had the realization at some point that even being healthy now will not protect me from death at some point.  That may sound cold or even cruel but it is very true.  My greatest hope is to be healthy for as long as possible.  I would love to live a very long time but death is not to be escaped.

I know these are two very different and weird ideas but bear with me.  We do not know at all what 2015 will bring.  Putting every date on our calendar is an act of faith.  Do we or will we trust Him each day no matter the conditions?  That is the hard question.  You can respond to the good and the bad in this year either in full or blind faith in God or you can be swept away but events.  The good news is faith need not be blind.  You live in the light of His word every single day regardless of what takes place.  Here is the key to this.  Your life will be richer and fuller by His activity.  You will look past life and death issues to gaze in His wonderful face.  So the things of earth will grow strangely dim in the light of His glory and grace.

Bro. Trey