WHAT THE NEW YEAR WILL BRING

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"What the new year will bring, we cannot know.  I think of the year that has been folded away in time.  There has been much good in it, although some sorrow.  But there are always, in any year, many lovely memories, and I shall cherish them.  Life is not, for most of us, a pageant of splendor but is made up of many small things, rather like an old-fashioned quilt.  No two people have the same, but we all have our own, whether it be listening to Beethoven's Fifth with a beloved friend or seeing a neighbor at the back door with a basket of white dahlias.  Or after a long, hard day having the family say, 'That was a good supper'.

The Murmuring Cottage

As the clock moves irrevocably from yesterday to today, I go out on the terrace and fill my heart with the intensity of the winter moonlight.  This is the time when the heart is at peace and the spirit rests.  I think of the words, 'Be still, and know that I am God'.  Far off a branch falls in the old orchard, and sometimes a plane goes overhead bound for a far destination.  I wish the pilot well, in that cold sky, and hope the passengers come safely home.  Silently I say, 'Happy New Year to all of us, all over this turning earth.  And may we make it a year of loving-kindness and gentle hearts'."

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By Gladys Taber

The Murmuring Cottage