United Community Church of Morrisville

With the start of a new year, we change calendars and planners — thinking of one year ending and another beginning. The reality is that the passage of time is more like a spiral in which it’s impossible to tell the end of one revolution and the beginning of the next. Every day is an opportunity for new beginnings.

Just because a new year is beginning, in the church calendar at least, the Christmas season continues. We enter this new year still committed to what theologian Howard Thurman called the true work of Christmas: “To find the lost, to heal the broken, to feed the hungry, to release the prisoner, to rebuild the nations, to bring peace among others, to make music in the heart.”