01.01.2023 | Happy New Year Sunday

Happy New Year 2023
In the long darkness of Winter on this first day of January 2023 as the new year begins, it feels as if nothing has really changed.  Another day, another flip of the calendar.  The days are shorter, and the nights are so much longer with still, long months of shortened days yet to come.

The reality is that everything has changed.  As I look around the Carondelet Garden I can witness the rebirth, not a simple turn of the calendar page, but the deep changes in the soil as new life, sheltered deep in the earth, is just waiting for the new Spring to climb toward to the coming light of longer days.  The author of Hebrews tells us that we move forward with the faith of being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.

On this first day of 2023, we begin a new year in the deepest of darkness but out of this darkness we, too, reach toward the coming light with the faith and hope that the light will shine, and better days are yet to come.  A year filled with the faith of things unseen, the hope of a new beginning and the desire to spread love and joy along the journey.  Happy New Year!