Manson's Memo 12/28
From the Dec. 28 Artesia Christian Church newsletter:
2004 is drawing to an end. What do you remember from this year? A “wardrobe malfunction� at the Super Bowl? The division into red and blue states? The Boston Red Sox escaping their curse and winning the World Series?
Maybe you remember something more personal – a wedding, a birth, the death of a loved one, a vacation, an accomplishment or a failure.
Every year is made up of a variety of memories -- some pleasant, some not. 2005 will be this way as well. We’ll have good times and bad. We’ll laugh; we’ll mourn. I’m beginning to sound like the author of Ecclesiastes: “To everything there is a time, and a season for every purpose under heaven.�
Ecclesiastes is often brought up as the year turns. It’s a fairly brief book, but very meaningful. It is an examination of what makes life worth living. It’s written by someone who has struggled to find meaning in life.
That kind of question is precisely the kind of thing we think about as the new year dawns. That is why we use it as a time to reflect and to resolve to change. As the year sits before us, we look at this time as an opportunity to seek to have our lives mean something.
A blessing for us all: Our lives do mean something. We are people created in God’s image. We are people whom Christ gave himself for. It’s not that we need to find meaning for our lives. We just have to live out that meaning
2004 is drawing to an end. What do you remember from this year? A “wardrobe malfunction� at the Super Bowl? The division into red and blue states? The Boston Red Sox escaping their curse and winning the World Series?
Maybe you remember something more personal – a wedding, a birth, the death of a loved one, a vacation, an accomplishment or a failure.
Every year is made up of a variety of memories -- some pleasant, some not. 2005 will be this way as well. We’ll have good times and bad. We’ll laugh; we’ll mourn. I’m beginning to sound like the author of Ecclesiastes: “To everything there is a time, and a season for every purpose under heaven.�
Ecclesiastes is often brought up as the year turns. It’s a fairly brief book, but very meaningful. It is an examination of what makes life worth living. It’s written by someone who has struggled to find meaning in life.
That kind of question is precisely the kind of thing we think about as the new year dawns. That is why we use it as a time to reflect and to resolve to change. As the year sits before us, we look at this time as an opportunity to seek to have our lives mean something.
A blessing for us all: Our lives do mean something. We are people created in God’s image. We are people whom Christ gave himself for. It’s not that we need to find meaning for our lives. We just have to live out that meaning
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