questions for a new year

What our New Year will be like. Reflection by J.A. Pagola New Year's Questions J A Pagola The theologian Ladislao Boros says in one of his writings that one of the cardinal principles of the Christian life is that "God always begins anew." With him nothing is definitely lost. In Him everything is beginning and renewal. To put it simply, God is not discouraged by our mediocrity. The renewing power of his forgiveness and grace is more vigorous than our errors and our sin. With Him, everything can begin again. Therefore, it is good to start the year with a desire for renewal. Each year of life offered to us is a time open to new possibilities, a time of grace and salvation in which we are invited to live in a new way. Therefore, it is important to listen to the questions that may arise from within us. What do I expect from the new year? Will it be a year spent "doing things," resolving issues, building up tension, nervousness, and moodiness, or will it be a year where I will learn to live more humanely? What do I really want this year? What will I spend the most precious and important time on? Will it be, once again, an empty, shallow, and routine year, or a year when I will love life with joy and gratitude? What time will I set aside for rest, silence, music, prayer, the encounter with God? Will I nourish my interior life or will I live in a hectic way, in permanent activity, running from one occupation to another, without knowing exactly what I want or what I live for? How much time will I dedicate to intimate enjoyment with my family and joyful coexistence with the children? Will I live outside my home organizing my life on my own or will I know how to love my loved ones with more dedication and tenderness? Who will I meet this year? Who will I approach? Will I share joy, life, hope, or spread discouragement, sadness, and death? Wherever I go, will life be more joyful and bearable or harder and more painful? Will I live this year concerned only with my own well-being or will I try to make others happy? Will I close myself off in my old old selfishness or will I live creatively, trying to make a more human and livable world around me? Will I continue to live with my back to God or will I dare to believe that He is my best Friend? Will I remain mute before Him, without opening my lips or my heart, or will a humble but sincere invocation finally spring up from within me?