The beginning of the year is a time for thinking afresh. Even if our body is ageing, our thinking can be evergreen. God always thinks freshly, because God is young, and always in the present. When we read the gospels we see that Jesus lived totally in the present. He was open to the emerging moment. We may think that being new is something for the future, that the next year will be new, even the next day. But nothing can be new except the now. It’s exciting to be able to live like that. read more...Prayer invites us always into newness of life. Prayer never lets the Spirit sit still except in the stillness of love. The new year invites us to create something new each day – the newness of love, of joy and often of endurance. To live for the day is to live always new. Prayer plunges us into the places of the Spirit where energy is available, like a flower reviving after a drought, or a faulty computer finding its way again, a patient getting therapy. Prayer is the space where we entrust into God’s memory what hurts our memory. We allow God’s forgiving and healing grace to make all things new in us.
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