Farewell and Welcome!

As I watched these two birds sitting on a cable looking into in two directions, I was reminded of the significance of these positions.

One is looking back and the other is looking forward and almost ready to fly off! 

Yesterday,  during a transaction in a bank, I felt agitated a and communicated that when I thought the officer was not reasonable enough! There are good and not so good experiences that we need to recall and learn lessons of fortitude and resilience as we bid farewell to 2015. Looking back is not a morbid activity for self pity or defence or holding others ransom for our situation, but to feel free of anything that imprisons us. We need inner freedom and wellness to resource our strength to move on for which we need time of reflection to celebrate and to feel grateful before we can close the year 2015!

Then it becomes even more meaningful to look forward to th year 2016! The readiness the bird conveys by looking forward is an invitation to be ready for what lies ahead in 2016!  The coming year is another land mark in each of our lives. In the 12 months that we have before us, we would come across a mosaic of events and experiences which would add to the formative process in our lives!

In the story of feeding five thousand people, while the search for food was on, Jesus of Nazareth turned to his disciples and told them to 'bring what they have'. Th five loaves and two fish they got from a boy became good enough for  everyone with twelve basket full of food left over!

Let us welcome 2016 knowing, that there would be pleasant surprises awaiting us because God is watching over our lives!

M.C.Mathew(text an photo)