With the beginning of every year, there is typically excitement in the air. A new year seems like the perfect place to start fresh. To make changes. A new year brings 365 days of opportunity as one chapter closes and another waits to be opened. We make resolutions, goals, and dream of what the next year might bring. We make plans to leave the past year's pain and hardships behind as we enter a new year, currently a new decade, and just KNOW things will be better! But now, you have made it to January 3rd. In those three short days, what if the newness of the year is already starting to wear off, and you're realizing it's still life. And life is HARD. Unfortunately, pain doesn't go away just because the year does. That hurt you so much wanted to leave behind was the first thing to greet you when you woke up Wednesday. That sin you were so determined to beat came with even more temptations. That resolution went out the w...
Amanda Arnold