大象传媒

A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Eleanor Jeans

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Good Morning,

We are already over a month into the new year. How is that even possible? I don鈥檛 know whether you are like me, but I didn鈥檛 make any official new year鈥檚 resolutions this year because I know I鈥檓 pretty useless at keeping them. In previous years my attempts to exercise or eat better have fallen almost at the first hurdle.

However, a new year is a good opportunity to take stock, to look back and to ponder what might be ahead.

Now you might be wondering why I am talking about new year when it鈥檚 February. Well, simply because today is Chinese New Year. Our Cantonese Fellowship at my church recently celebrated by teaching church members how to do Chinese paper cutting, a celebratory activity for the new year.

There was such beauty in the intricate designs, where light would shine through the spaces creating and producing not just a light, but the image from the paper cuts.

And that image reminds me that I am fearfully and wonderfully made by God, intricately created, where the light of Jesus can shine through in the way he has created me to be, like those pieces of paper.

Now there are times, like when I don鈥檛 keep my resolutions, or when I make mistakes, that I might well mess up that image, but I find such comfort in knowing that God鈥檚 mercies are new every morning. And that鈥檚 not a once a year thing, but every single day.

So today I pray, Lord God, for love and mercy this new day, to be the person I am created to be, to know that I am fearfully and wonderfully made.

Amen

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