Every year, when the calendar season starts fresh, I get super excited. It’s like the slate is wiped clean and I have a fresh start.
Then I ruin it by creating all these lists of things I want to do. Lose more weight, eat healthier, read my bible more, exercise more. Usually by this time, three weeks or so into the New Year, I’ve already failed at most of my resolutions.
It’s exhausting. Wanting to be more. And feeling like you are never enough.
Can you relate at all?
What if this year we stopped wanting to do more, more, more?
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Our small town lights shine at the end of the dark country road, letting me know home is just ahead. We don’t have an airport or supercenter; the brightest lights in town shine over the football field. Yet in the distance porch lights and streetlights are enough to light up the night.
Jesus said that we are the light of the world; “a city on a hill cannot be hidden” (Matthew 6:14). I’ve often read this passage and thought of it in individual terms. I have my light and you have yours, and we all shine.
But I don’t think that’s exactly how Jesus meant it.
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