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It is good to look back at the previous year to see the many experiences, good and bad, we have faced. We must believe they are stepping stones in our lives that help us grow.
"It's Just Another New Year's Eve" is a song recorded by Barry Manilow and written by Manilow with Marty Panzer. It was followed by the single "Can't Smile. Lyrics to "It's Just Another New Year's Eve" song by Barry Manilow: Don't look so sad, It's not so bad you know. It's just another night, That's all it is. It's not the.
Certainly, it is important for us to learn from our past and to incorporate the wisdom we have obtained to help us in the future. No matter the situation, the Lord is with us. He will lead and guide us as we seek Him. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail. Barry Manilow may feel that New Year is just another day or each New Year is the same as the previous one, but our thoughts should be of expectation for what the Lord has for us. Whether it is a need for a better job, increase in finances, healing in our bodies, salvation of loved ones, a new home or car, or whatever your need may be.
I remember as a single parent having great needs to care for myself and my son. They just get more depressed … and more depressing to be around. In some ballroom or out on some freezing-cold plaza packed with strangers … not so much.
At one time, it might have been enough to go to a party simply because it was billed as a party. Eventually, though, I realized that what made a party fun, whether I was drinking or not, was the people I partied with. With people I like and whose company I enjoy, I can have a splendid time and drink very little; with strangers, no amount of alcohol can erase the awkwardness and isolation. Remember all the nights we spent with them?
Communio, the root of both communion and community , is found in the things we have in common, the things that bring us together and bind us to one another. Communio reaches beyond the conceptual coldness of the social contract to form a single body out of disparate individuals; it humanizes what would otherwise be a mere collection of bodies defined by arbitrary boundaries.
And what binds us together in primary relationships, more than blood or law or contracted obligations, is our common pasts — the backgrounds and memories we share with others. Common values and common experiences do more for stable social institutions than do common goals and aspirations. They hold us together even when the choices we make for our lives pull us apart. Or sit at home and watch the festivities on the boob tube with maybe a couple other people — communio at its smallest.
To escape their reality, society tells people to join their parties where they are expected to at least manufacture some semblance of phony happiness. But everybody sees through the entire game and nobody really enjoys it.
But surely, to confuse pleasure with happiness is the error of the addictive personality and the great mistake of the materialist worldview. We Americans are becoming increasingly self-absorbed and disconnected, isolated not only from each other but from any sense of community or history. This is no accident: Notify me of new posts via email.
We are building up a new world. Do not sit idly by. Do not remain neutral.
Do not rely on this broadcast alone. We are only as strong as our signal. There is a war going on for your mind. If you are thinking, you are winning.
The simplest and most important thing of all: So just be kind. Never be cruel, never be cowardly, and never, ever eat pears!
Remember, hate is always foolish. Always try to be nice, but never fail to be kind. Comments 0 Leave a comment. What do you think?