Three simple verbs for this new year: Restore. Retrain. Remember. To remember is the most difficult.

Three reminders for the new year:

From the Word:

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. Ephesians 2:10

Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them, And when they saw him  they worshiped him, but some doubted.  And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.  Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you.  And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.” Matthew 28:16 – 20

And from children’s literature:

“Each of us has a unique destiny…There’s much to be gained by understanding your role in life and much to be lost by ignoring it.”

-Spoken to the young King Arthur in Hudson Talbott’s Excalibur