New 12 months’s Day. It’s the third a part of the cultural holy trinity with Thanksgiving and Christmas. The New 12 months speaks to us – it’s a new starting, time to rectify the screw-ups for the final yr.
We yearn for these second possibilities. My spouse and I used to observe the TV with the Instances Sq. ball dropping. We’d toast the New 12 months. That is it! I’m not sure what makes January 1 a lot totally different from August 6.
For a few of us the day is a motive to have somebody over for dinner, a motive to exit. There’s numerous cultural stress happening right here. Slot in! We are able to exit per week from now, however the tradition says, “Now!”
Be conscious of what you need to do. Nowadays we’re asleep by 9.
Jon Heydenreich is pastor at Brattleboro’s Trinity Lutheran Church.
