[Kathy in Alaska]

Here's to health and happiness!
A toast to the New Year!
Peace and joy to all of us!
Prosperity and cheer!
Years come and go, some bad, some good.
New years provide the space,
Each to fill with what one would,
Windows onto grace.
Years come and go, yet still we toast
Each one, for each one seems
As though it were a new-found coast,
Rich with hope and dreams.

[Publius]

Sergei Rachmaninov plays “The Star Spangled Banner”

[PROCON]

Happy New Year!

[lightman]

Happy New Year!

[Biggirl]

Hi!

[Biggirl]

Happy New Year 2021!!!!

[larryjohnson]

HAPPIER 2021
Granddaughter visiting us in FL from ME.Drove her truck and boyfriend for 36 hours. She is still partying but we crash earlier

[Jet Jaguar]

Happy New Year Kathy!

[The Mayor]

Freep mail me to be on or off the Daily Bread ping list

January 1

Uncharted Waters

Bible in a Year:

• Genesis 1–3
• Matthew 1

When you pass through the waters, I will be with you.

 Isaiah 43:2

The ball drops in New York’s Times Square. The crowd counts down to Big Ben chiming. Sydney Harbor erupts in fireworks. However your city marks it, there’s something exciting about welcoming in a new year and the fresh start it brings. On New Year’s Day we push out into new waters. What friendships and opportunities might we find?

For all its excitement, though, a new year can be unsettling. None of us knows the future or what storms it may hold. Many New Year’s traditions reflect this: Fireworks were invented in China to supposedly ward off evil spirits and make a new season prosperous. And New Year’s resolutions date back to the Babylonians who made vows to appease their gods. Such acts were an attempt to make an unknown future secure.

When they weren’t making vows, the Babylonians were busy conquering people—including Israel. In time, God sent the enslaved Jews this message: “Do not fear . . . . When you pass through the waters, I will be with you” (Isaiah 43:1–2). Later, Jesus said something similar when He and the disciples were caught sailing in a violent storm. “Why are you so afraid?” He told them before commanding the waters to be still (Matthew 8:23–27).

Today we push out from the shore into new, uncharted waters. Whatever we face, He’s with us—and He has the power to calm the waves. Reflect & Pray

What possibilities excite you as you look forward to a new year? What worries can you place in God’s hands?

God, thank You that whatever this new year brings, You will be with me in it.

[MoochPooch]

Hi Kathy! Happy New Year! Let’s pray for a better one.

[mountainlion]

My electric blanket is calling and when I wake up it will be over, 2020 that is.

[Kathy in Alaska]

~ HAPPY NEW YEAR 2021! ~

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[luvie]

...to you all!
May 2021 be a better year!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Roberts Family Christmas Light Show - click

[Fiddlstix]

Happy New Year

[E.G.C.]

Happy New Year and ((HUGS)) to everyone at the Canteen and to all our military at home and abroad. Thanks for your service to our country.

How's everyone this morning?

[jocon307]

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL MY FREEPER FRIENDS!! HOPE 21 IS OK!!

[Billthedrill]

Happy happy happy New Year!! We took some hits. Time to give them back.

[radu]

Greetings to all at the Canteen!

To all our military men and women, past and present,

THANK YOU
for your service!

[left that other site]

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

(((HUGS)))

ML/LTOS

[luvie]

Goood First Day of 2021, Early Birds!
Did you have fun last night?
I thought I was getting a cold.
So I medicated and went to sleep.
After midnight, of course.
Feel better this morning.
All y'all have a Fantastic Friday!
...and a Wonderful Weekend!
And especially a Happy New Year!
((((hugs))))