New Year Reflections

First of all and at the very end of the day, I want to wish you all a happy new year 🎊 for as I said in my message yesterday, 2022 has come and gone ever so quickly and leaves us hopeful 🙏🏻 but cautious for 2023. We need to make sure we use our precious time wisely ⌚ and one way we can do that is by reflection 🤔 and the other way is by change ☑️

We do not know what 2023 will bring and we all have our own ideas/hopes, just as we hear Rishi Sunak speak of the New Year as an opportunity to be our best, while Keir Starmer hails the need for hope and that hope needs change. Spoken with political motivations but in the times we live in, we do need hope 🙏🏻 and it reminds me of Israel when the Prophet Isaiah foretold the birth of Christ over 400y before (Isa 9:6) which was partially fulfilled at Christmas 🌟 with Christ's return when 'the Government shall be upon his shoulder' to come ➡️

Christmas is just the start + the hope continues 😊 but change must come from all of us. We try with our New Year Resolutions but they break 💔, this is my reflection as I share my first New Year post when I started 'The Challenger' for weekly devotionals/reflections and failed after a month 😅 yet now I learn and move forward, writing on this 8th Day of Christmas and determined to reach the end. End of the day, I am but human, but we all learn 🤷‍♂️ just as I seek to learn/understand the true meaning of Christmas and answer the question that I asked 2yrs ago. As the saying goes, better late than never 😅😂

#JesustheReason4theSeason

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/dec/31/uks-problems-will-not-go-away-admits-sunak-after-tough-2022
https://the--challenger.blogspot.com/2021/01/new-year-new-beginnings.html?m=1

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