Ahh…2018, how we have longed to see you. You are not offering us the welcome we wanted. Bitter storms and mudslides instead of quiet winter days and solid ground to steady our feet. The continued threat of war, the continued fear of those who are different from us, the continued bickering from the right and the left. You may put on a show of gloom and doom, but we know the truth. You are offering us a new beginning each day. Every morning, every step, every breath is another chance to re-direct our perspective towards hope.
We have come a long way from the day when Martin Luther King Jr. simply spoke the words of his dream for an America where "one day right there in Alabama little black boys and little black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.” Some days the children seem to be kinder to one another than we are. Other days, the children reveal the worst of our locker room conversations, degrading one another for things we didn’t know we taught them. We still have a long way to go to reach the day when children "will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character.”
Disruptive Nature, Divisive News, and Distracting Networking block us from taking a break, pausing for a new breath, or resetting our course for hope. We have met the challenges of our times with genuine perseverance, and we will continue to meet whatever you bring to us in 2018 with determination and a good sense of humor. May we do so with hearts as courageous as Maya Angelo, who said, “Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time."
One more time? I can do that. I can trust and hope for another day, another new beginning, and from there, we’ll take a breath, reset, and trust again.
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