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How to have a truly happy new year.

For the first time in years, I don’t remember my New Year’s resolution from January. Usually, I write it down in my journal or on a note I stick to my mirror. There’s been many of those dog-eared sticky notes from years past. The year of contentment. Speaking life. We passed pancakes across the breakfast table on January 1st this year. “What do you want from 2018?” I can’t remember my answer. I know what I didn’t want though. I didn’t want to walk into her office and share the parts of my life I’m inclined to hide. I didn’t want to Facetime her the day after she delivered her baby that never breathed. I didn’t want to spend four months wondering how I’d walk into her house on Christmas day and see her empty chair. I didn’t want to go on another first date that led nowhere. We sit across from each other in a little coffee shop in Colorado, picking at a charcuterie board. “When I think about all of the things I have left to go through,” her voice cracks....

Psalm 107:9 Part 3

For he satisfies the longing soul,
    and the hungry soul he fills with good things. Psalm 107:9

They came one at a time, stopped on their journey to classes with heavy backpacks and bags pulling their shoulders down. Their eyes were swimming with questions. They picked out pictures to describe their life, their spiritual journey, their view of God. Here they were needing answers: The One Right Answer. It would satisfy them, put their searching at rest. I heard Julie speaking the Answer to the man with the sweet smile. She was laying it all out with hand gestures, words and her own changed soul: the cross. The cross satisfies the longing soul.

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