"What the new year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the new year."  - Vern McClellan

Each year we try and start new beginnings. To us, a new year can feel like a new life. A new life to start fresh and forget the past. It almost feels refreshing to us when that new year comes and we get to move forward in a new life, a new us. If you really think about it though, a new year is another "next day."  Just another day to try and live this life the best we can with God's help. What the new year brings really does depend on what you bring to it. Will you bring old baggage or will you bring a new perspective? Stop standing at 'The Baggage Claim of Life" waiting to pick up past year's issues. Focus on what matters moving forward and start fresh with nothing in your hands. Look up, step forward and begin this year with a new outlook on life...

Philippians 4:8 (NLT)

8 And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise.