So, we have entered into 2008!  In fact we are more than a week into this year.  When I was little, I don't think I ever thought or dreamed about this year.  2007 was the exciting year that was planned for and imagined out.  I turned 18 in 2007.  I graduated from high school in 2007.  2007 was the year my life was to officially "begin".   How funny that I never thought to think past the much anticipated "beginning",  except to assume that everything wonderful would occur in it. 

Every New Year's Eve I always think about that passage in The Magician's Nephew where Polly and Digory watch as the world of Charn dies. All that history, all those people's lives, all over and done. In all the thousands of years of earth's history, the events of one year of my life seem of very little consequence. When I think of all of time, I am amazed at a God that is interested and involved in my tiny life. What does the year 2008  mean to the Lord who does not measure time as we do? And yet He continues to work and to fulfill His will. Year afer year,  He never sleeps or becomes tired but is involved in all the details of our lives. How thankful I am for His patient teaching as He causes His plans to come about.

I do not know what this year holds. That statement has been true about every  year of my life and will continue to be true about all the ones to come. What makes this year feel so different for me is that I do not even know what to expect for this one.  In the midst of this uncertainty I am thankful that I can rest on the assurance that Christ is on His throne. This year is no different for Him. He knows what is to come.

"Lord, make me to know my end and what is the extent of my days; let me know how transient I am.

"Behold, You have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing in Your sight; surely every man at his best is a mere breath. Selah.

"Surely every man walks about as a phantom; surely they make an uproar for nohing; He amasses riches and does no know who will gather them.

"And now, Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in You."   Psalm 39:4-7