A New Year

Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. -Isaiah 43:18

As my mom's favorite character from all time, Anne of Green Gables said, "Tomorrow is a new day, with no mistakes in it." I can't fall asleep at night sometimes just thinking about all the stupid things I have done, all the opportunities I missed, and all the times I could have helped someone but was to shy to ask if they need it. I dwell on my mistakes until the make me sick. But God calls us to learn from the past, and then forget. This is a new year, fresh with no mistakes in it. I need to follow God's leading into the new things ahead. He can give us a new beginning. Joni Eareckson Tada, at the end of my devotions this morning, Prayed, "Lord of beginnings, I'm ready to have you do something new in my life this year. Thank you for leading me into the untouched days ahead. I'm ready to follow."

⁴ Show me your ways, O LORD,

teach me your paths;

⁵ guide me in your truth and teach me,

for you are God my Savior,

and my hope is in you all day long.

⁶ Remember, O LORD, your great mercy and love,

for they are from of old.

⁷ Remember not the sins of my youth

and my rebellious ways;

according to your love remember me,

for you are good, O LORD.

⁸ Good and upright is the LORD;

therefore he instructs sinners in his ways.

⁹ He guides the humble in what is right

and teaches them his way.

¹⁰ All the ways of the LORD are loving and faithful

for those who keep the demands of his covenant.

¹¹ For the sake of your name, O LORD,

forgive my iniquity, though it is great.

Psalm 25:4-11